Re: comment style

[Alan Cox]

> -//     priv->phyOnline = 1;
> +/*     priv->phyOnline = 1; */
> 
> The ISO has decided to make C++ comments legal in C.
> This means you should adjust your gcc config, not hack
> the nice new-style comments out of the kernel.

There are specific reasons for making this change. gcc might known that the
_draft_ ISO standard allows C++ comments, the code checking tools I have do
not. I've got nothing against the "new" (read as left out when B was written)
style comments.

> The ISO standardizes C, not obsolete gcc config files.

Wrong tense - you mean "will"

[related syntactic humour item]

It's also capable of causing different results for the same code depending
if that commenting is supported

	int x;

	x=2//**/
	-1;

	if(x==1)
	{
		printf("Compiled with a C++ compiler.. You lose\n");
		exit(1);
	}