From: Brian Norris Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:37:12 +0000 (-0700) Subject: docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style X-Git-Url: https://gentwo.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0aa760051f4eb3d3bcd812125557bd09629a71e8;p=linux%2F.git 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 Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org> --- 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**