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

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Date:	Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:07:49 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: revert --strict test for net/ and
 drivers/net block comment style


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Revert the --strict test for the old preferred block
> >> comment style in drivers/net and net/
> >
> > Emphatic NAK.
> 
> Ingo, I don't think you understood. That test reverts the thing you
> wanted reverted wrt the block comments.

Yeah, I was confused: I judged it by the title and description 
and assumed it was only doing it for drivers/net/ and net/.

But in reality it just does a wholesale revert of this check 
with no net/ and drivers/net/ specificity to it, so it's 
perfectly fine to me:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

Thanks,

	Ingo
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