Commit 0aa76005 authored by Brian Norris's avatar Brian Norris Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style 



Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no
longer checks for this.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBrian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>
parent 7159cf9f

Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst

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       * 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



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