linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't encourage new code to use "networking" style comments

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Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:36:32 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't encourage new code to use
 "networking" style comments

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 12:27 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:24:18AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I believe the only person that actually cares about
> > the networking comment style is David Miller.
> 
> Which is why I've CC'd him. If even *he* doesn't care about having this
> warning in checkpatch, then why should anyone else?

Last I looked, David still requests changes to patches
that don't follow that style.