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docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style
authorBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:37:11 +0000 (13:37 -0700)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:36:33 +0000 (14:36 -0600)
Ironically, the block style comments in the checkpatch documentation are
not aligned properly. Correct that.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-1-briannorris@chromium.org>

Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst

index d5c47e560324fb2399a5b1bc99c891ed1de10535..d7fe023b3080fe168ac8f2003ed267e0690c9bd9 100644 (file)
@@ -461,16 +461,16 @@ Comments
     line comments is::
 
       /*
-      * This is the preferred style
-      * for multi line comments.
-      */
+       * This is the preferred style
+       * 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/
-      */
+       * for files in net/ and drivers/net/
+       */
 
     See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#commenting