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From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
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Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> writes:
> On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 19:02 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> Code is 80 characters wide, and comments are /* */ never the ugly C++
>> crap.
>
> You might look at the recent Linus Torvalds authored commit
> 5e467652ffef (?printk: re-organize log_output() to be more legible")
> which does both of those: c99 // comments and > 80 columns.
>
> Absolutes are for zealots.

What Linus does in his code, is totally up to him. What I pull into the
driver that *I* maintain, is up to me. It is perfectly normal to expect
submitters to respect the coding style of the piece of code they are
trying to edit.

Jes