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>

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index d7fe023b3080fe168ac8f2003ed267e0690c9bd9..dfaad0a279ff1069d10f1676171ee2dce500624d 100644 (file)
--- 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**