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

[Peter Maydell]

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 <address@hidden>
---
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 :-)
---
 CODING_STYLE | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE
index 12ba58ee293..2d84f5f26d1 100644
--- a/CODING_STYLE
+++ b/CODING_STYLE
@@ -124,6 +124,23 @@ We use traditional C-style /* */ comments and avoid // 
comments.
 Rationale: The // form is valid in C99, so this is purely a matter of
 consistency of style. The checkpatch script will warn you about this.
 
+Multiline comments blocks should have a row of stars on the left,
+and the initial /* and terminating */ both on their own lines:
+    /*
+     * like
+     * this
+     */
+This is the same format required by the Linux kernel coding style.
+
+(Some of the existing comments in the codebase use the GNU Coding
+Standards form which does not have stars on the left, or other
+variations; avoid these when writing new comments, but don't worry
+about converting to the preferred form unless you're editing that
+comment anyway.)
+
+Rationale: Consistency, and ease of visually picking out a multiline
+comment from the surrounding code.
+
 8. trace-events style
 
 8.1 0x prefix
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