Re: [Patch] scsi: megaraid_{mm,mbox}: init fix for kdump

On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:31:38 -0500 Douglas Gilbert wrote:

Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:02:17 -0800 Sumant Patro wrote:

See Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
Please include output of "diffstat -p1 -w70" so that we can easily see
the scope of the changes.

and see Documentation/CodingStyle for comments below:


diff -uprN linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c linux-2.6.new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c 2006-12-28 09:56:04.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.new/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mbox.c 2006-12-29 05:31:48.000000000 -0800
@@ -779,6 +780,22 @@ megaraid_init_mbox(adapter_t *adapter)
goto out_release_regions;
}

+ // initialize the mutual exclusion lock for the mailbox
+ spin_lock_init(&raid_dev->mailbox_lock);

Linux uses /*...*/ C89-style comments, not // C99 comments.

Randy
It is about time this absurd stipulation was dropped.
Are there any C compilers that can compile the linux
kernel and that don't accept both _standard_ comment styles?

It's not a technical issue, it's just a style point.

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~Randy
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