From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B25F354ADF; Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760735790; cv=none; b=E3qmDyp/5hLZpT8CgBQEFgOBK69NED4bsdvQRAxLiJk1+m+e7cYwkJEOYcNTZ7Z+ht7yn3oUZIdMAV4PxxmL9Y3ajyH3TMcZRq9U3Rim2+rBHdzPHXfNhvxekgzUZz4ZdWjHgehCanJnCCsQqXuf4KKzPzkWMAjF5ZtFeR3tv24= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760735790; c=relaxed/simple; bh=WmUPzgLnBG1yK+phNKyl3NvrOgOJI6MjklB6JGxT0UM=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=ZUsoHlvOaOFDD89+lg6+TCQkhOMR2+AdWFvXFuWelaFbC8kd/FPlcINrstegnIuuPevJW99vugg5AiOrzXo9/LsVK1JPYLizHl8TD16DnfYbNKn2a8Q+8Ski+EmV3RMweNsZNPqPZgN84sRR1PGzKAfN62C1bk1ollVP135fKqI= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=jyk5UvgG; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="jyk5UvgG" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=z/TSXdncORw86OBVqBrpLa3jhePghRL2wLGg8BR64rs=; b=jyk5UvgGnpqpJ22faaWu8az0jN fzsPqmx7CHPl0TvcAqhRedctBUOfw3YQc3NQMjBE9BaFjZM3uVTJrdJbSZT80SoIU9QWLHl9S4HHs qTIfJDhJsFfh4rjIzugu734xFhquJyyycElpMSE9GqGWflUI985CAtJHpss9tUGpLJ8Mfb5XtXqQu liy9R8qa+qfanQtfEs9LAVyuh56fMUbAHKpabwfMEsJyS8IidHtIeQQdzWyUukgnPTpn6EoFnE1sd jnjLJALpqdsPgrJTCkb215cvYc2lrCsoPYz7bD9PkIGVn+e0AQZC/ErBGTj+AEHw6vreEszq8JL34 me9cR/9Q==; Received: from [50.53.43.113] (helo=[192.168.254.34]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1v9roJ-000000091zh-0vcn; Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:16:27 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:16:26 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style To: Brian Norris , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joe Perches , workflows@vger.kernel.org References: <20251017203719.1554224-1-briannorris@chromium.org> <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org> Content-Language: en-US From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap and for reference: commit 82b8000c28b5 Author: Johannes Berg 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