[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 3/5] drivers/raw: introduce skeleton rawdev driver

[Thomas Monjalon]

16/01/2018 11:21, Shreyansh Jain:
> On Monday 15 January 2018 04:24 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 02/01/2018 13:57, Shreyansh Jain:
> >> +struct skeleton_firmware {
> >> +	struct skeleton_firmware_version_info firmware_version;
> >> +	/**< Device firmware information */
> >> +	enum skeleton_firmware_state firmware_state;
> >> +	/**< Device state */
> >> +};
> >> +
> >> +#define SKELETON_MAX_ATTRIBUTES 10
> >> +#define SKELETON_ATTRIBUTE_NAME_MAX 20
> >> +
> >> +struct skeleton_rawdev_attributes {
> >> +	char *name;
> >> +	/**< Name of the attribute */
> >> +	uint64_t value;
> >> +	/**< Value or reference of value of attribute */
> >> +};
> >> +
> >> +#define SKELETON_CAPA_FW_LOAD	0x0001
> >> +/**< Device supports firmware loading/unloading */
> >> +#define SKELETON_CAPA_FW_RESET  0x0002
> >> +/**< Device supports firmware reset */
> >> +#define SKELETON_CAPA_QUEUES    0x0004
> >> +/**< Device support queue based communication */
> > 
> > Comment about the style. The style is important :)
> > You are always writing comments after the item.
> 
> Yes, I was trying to stick to single method - postfix.
> 
> > When comments are on a separate line, I think it is preferred to write
> > them *before* the item they describe.
> > 
> 
> Consider this:
> 
> struct dummy {
>      int a;  /**< a postfix comment */
>      /**< a prefix comment */
>      int b;
> };
> 
> Personally, Even I prefer prefix when it comes to full line comments - 
> but mixing prefix and postfix can lead to non-readable code.
> 
> Anyways - I was referring [1]
> 
> [1] 
> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/documentation.html#doxygen-guidelines
> 
> and it seems that I should change all to prefix in case any comment in 
> the structure is not fitting into a single line.
> I will do that.

OK thanks