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 <[email protected]>
> Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
and for reference:
commit 82b8000c28b5
Author: Johannes Berg <[email protected]>
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
