On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:39 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

Ingo Molnar wrote:

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+	/* Make sure kernel address space is empty so that a pagetable
+	   will be allocated for it. */
    

comment style.
  

As you've noticed its a comment style I use quite often.  I use it for
what's essentially a little local comment, rather than a block comment
which really needs to draw attention to itself.  In this case, I think using

Understood, but then you need to make that comment a single line :)

The way Linux code prefers comments (like the code itself actually
prefers it!) is single line comments stay on a single line, and
multiline comments are always block.

So it's either:

   /* my little comment here */

or 

   /*
    * This comment, although small and to the point, does span multiple
    * lines and regardless, needs to be a block comment.
    */

I guess it just makes it easier on the eyes when everything conforms and
others need to look at / maintain your code.


-- Steve