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authorBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>2025-10-17 13:37:12 -0700
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2025-10-21 14:36:33 -0600
commit0aa760051f4eb3d3bcd812125557bd09629a71e8 (patch)
tree33adc6a48c255d4181809f19becd0d1ac16f06de
parent7159cf9fad12e827883104715675856aab20b00d (diff)
docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style
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> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst7
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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**