linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: revert --strict test for net/ and drivers/net block comment style

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Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:32:49 -0600
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: revert --strict test for net/ and drivers/net
 block comment style

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On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 12:44 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 04/16/2012 02:17 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >   aad4f6149831 checkpatch: add --strict tests for braces, comments and casts
> > made the default checkpatch run complain about the following 
> > perfectly fine multi-line comment block:

No, it didn't.

It only made checkpatch complain if --strict was
added to the command line arguments.

I don't care about the comment style, it is/was
David Miller's preferred style for drivers/net and
net/

I think a straight revert isn't appropriate.

Here's one that just removes the comment check.




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