So by chance I looked into x86 assembly in arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.c and
noticed the weird and inconsistent comment style it mistakenly learned from
the networking code:
/* Multi-line comment ...
* ... looks like this.
*/
Fix this to use the standard comment style specified in Documentation/CodingStyle
and used in arch/x86/ as well:
/*
* Multi-line comment ...
* ... looks like this.
*/
Also, to quote Linus's ... more explicit views about this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.cryptoapi/21066
> But no, the networking code picked *none* of the above sane formats.
> Instead, it picked these two models that are just half-arsed
> shit-for-brains:
>
> (no)
> /* This is disgusting drug-induced
> * crap, and should die
> */
>
> (no-no-no)
> /* This is also very nasty
> * and visually unbalanced */
>
> Please. The networking code actually has the *worst* possible comment
> style. You can literally find that (no-no-no) style, which is just
> really horribly disgusting and worse than the otherwise fairly similar
> (d) in pretty much every way.
Also improve the comments and some other details while at it:
- Don't mix same-line and previous-line comment style on otherwise
identical code patterns within the same function,
- capitalize 'BPF' and x86 register names consistently,
- capitalize sentences consistently,
- instead of 'x64' use 'x86-64': x64 is a Microsoft specific term,
- use more consistent punctuation,
- use standard coding style in macros as well,
- fix typos and a few other minor details.
Consistent coding style is not optional, at least in arch/x86/.
No change in functionality.
( In case this commit causes conflicts with pending development code
I'll be glad to help resolve any conflicts! )
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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