[PATCH 3/4] doc: codingstyle: Remove comment about '//' style comments

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Mon Jun 27 19:17:21 CEST 2022


For some time now we've allowed for '//' style comments, which mirrors
the Linux kernel.  So drop this point here.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
---
 doc/develop/codingstyle.rst | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/develop/codingstyle.rst b/doc/develop/codingstyle.rst
index a41aed2764fb..bdf1efc6019a 100644
--- a/doc/develop/codingstyle.rst
+++ b/doc/develop/codingstyle.rst
@@ -29,11 +29,6 @@ The following rules apply:
   careful consideration, be exempted from these rules. For such files, the
   original coding style may be kept to ease subsequent migration to newer
   versions of those sources.
-* Please note that U-Boot is implemented in C (and to some small parts in
-  Assembler); no C++ is used, so please do not use C++ style comments (//) in
-  your code.
-
-  * The sole exception here is for SPDX tags in some files (checkpatch.pl will warn you).
 
 * Please also stick to the following formatting rules:
 
-- 
2.25.1



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