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

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Date:   Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:24:18 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:     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 10:55 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> Our glorious leader has made his opinion known [1]: the "networking"
> comment style is not useful for new code.

<shrug>  and yet nothing was done.

I think _very_ few people concern themselves one way
or another.

I believe the only person that actually cares about
the networking
comment style is David Miller.

> While the same rules as usual
> still apply -- e.g., don't unnecessarily churn existing code, and follow
> existing practice within files -- that doesn't mean that checkpatch
> should be enforcing that for entire directories. Among other reasons,
> this can cause automatic patch generators to do the exact wrong thing:
> convert perfectly good existing code into the "networking style", just
> because it's in a similar directory.

I believe the patch generator you are referring to is
checkpatch.

And checkpatch doesn't actually offer to "--fix" any
comment style.  It just bleats a message.

I don't know of another tool that proposes patches
that vary comment styles based on directory.