Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>]

On 10/17/25 1:37 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no
> longer checks for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
> Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

and for reference:

commit 82b8000c28b5
Author: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Date:   Mon Aug 19 11:09:43 2024 +0200
    net: drop special comment style


Thanks.

> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  * new in v2
> 
>  Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 7 -------
>  1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> index d7fe023b3080..dfaad0a279ff 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> @@ -465,13 +465,6 @@ Comments
>         * for multi line comments.
>         */
>  
> -    The networking comment style is a bit different, with the first line
> -    not empty like the former::
> -
> -      /* This is the preferred comment style
> -       * for files in net/ and drivers/net/
> -       */
> -
>      See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#commenting
>  
>    **C99_COMMENTS**

-- 
~Randy