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]> --- 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** -- 2.51.0.858.gf9c4a03a3a-goog
