Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Stop hiding behind Linus.
No, Linus happily stands up for //. I really don't like one-liner /* */ comments. Let's face it, // was the _one_ thing C++ got right, among all the horrible bad decisions. I think we should just start moving to // in general, but only when adding new ones (ie I don't want to see any automatic conversion patches). And it's _particularly_ true for the whole case where we mix one-liners like the SPDX line with block comments. That's where /* */ really sucks.