Re: [PATCH 6/9] tty: hvc_console: Fix coding style issues of block comments

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2021-05-20 at 10:21 +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 12:01:22PM +0800, Xiaofei Tan wrote:
> > On 2021/5/17 22:15, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 02:37:10PM +0800, Xiaofei Tan wrote:
> > > > Fix coding style issues of block comments, reported by checkpatch.pl.
> > > > Besides, add a period at the end of the sentenses.
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> > > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
[]
> > > > @@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ static void hvc_console_print(struct console *co, const char *b,
> > > >  			r = cons_ops[index]->put_chars(vtermnos[index], c, i);
> > > >  			if (r <= 0) {
> > > >  				/* throw away characters on error
> > > > -				 * but spin in case of -EAGAIN */
> > > > +				 * but spin in case of -EAGAIN.
> > > > +				 */
> > > 
> > > How is this an improvement? First, the multi-line comment style is
> > > 
> > > 	/*
> > > 	 * ...
> > > 	 */
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, mostly we use this style. I can follow it if new version is needed.
> 
> This is the preferred style outside of networking.
> 
> > BTW, How about add the '/*' check into checkpatch.pl?
> 
> Checkpatch already has too many checks IMO

I sometimes agree.  What checkpatch messages do you think are excessive?

> and I'm a bit surprised that
> it doesn't check this already. Perhaps it's because you used the -f to
> run checkpatch on in-kernel code, which you should not.

Likely not.  If it was run on a suggested patch, checkpatch doesn't emit
many messages on unmodified patch context lines.  And it shouldn't.

> it's just that you
> introduce noise in the logs and do pointless changes of context which
> makes it harder to use tools like git blame and makes backporting harder
> for no good reason.

Pretty pointless metric IMO.  Context changes in comments are mostly harmless.
IMO: backporting of these sorts non-bug fix changes is done _far_ too often.