Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] CODING_STYLE: Define our preferred form for multiline comments

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 12 June 2018 at 18:30, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 06/11/2018 04:17 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> The codebase has a bit of a mix of different multiline
>> comment styles. State a preference for the Linux kernel
>> style:
>>     /*
>>      * Star on the left for each line.
>>      * Leading slash-star and trailing star-slash
>>      * each go on a line of their own.
>>      */
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
>> ---
>> This is not my personal favourite, but seemed to be the
>> closest we had to consensus in the mail thread for v1;
>> I can live with it in order to avoid getting patches which
>> use the styles I like even less :-)
>
> Honestly, I don't like this except for "important" comments.
>
> A "small" comment, e.g. one that doesn't quite fit on a single line, now takes
> 4 lines instead of 2.  Which is really annoying and IMO tends to break flow.

That's why I prefer
 /* two
  * lines
  */
style over kernel-style. But apparently nobody else does...

thanks
-- PMM