linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style

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Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:37:12 -0700
From: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
To: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	workflows@...r.kernel.org,
	Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style

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

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
---

Changes in v2:
 * new in v2

 Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index d7fe023b3080..dfaad0a279ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -465,13 +465,6 @@ Comments
        * 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
 
   **C99_COMMENTS**
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