On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 22:54, Doug Evans <d...@google.com> wrote: > > Hi. > > The coding style docs don't specify this as being bad: > > foo(/*bar=*/true); > > which improves readability at the call site. > It's not a style to be used liberally, but sometimes it's helpful. > > Alas checkpatch.pl claims this is a block comment. > > Would it be ok if I try to fix checkpatch.pl to treat this as ok?
Well, whether it's good or bad style it's certainly not a block comment, so it's a bug for checkpatch to call it one. If you want to dive into that morass of perl feel free :-) thanks -- PMM
