linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: micrel: Add support for non PTP SKUs for lan8814

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Message-ID: <20251021161447.311a3e0f@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:14:47 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Gerhard Engleder <gerhard@...leder-embedded.com>
Cc: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, hkallweit1@...il.com,
 linux@...linux.org.uk, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 pabeni@...hat.com, richardcochran@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: phy: micrel: Add support for non PTP SKUs
 for lan8814

On Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:11:13 +0200 Gerhard Engleder wrote:
> >> Hasn't net also switched to the common kernel multiline comment style
> >> starting with an empty line?  
> > 
> > I am not sure because I can see some previous commits where people used
> > the same comment style:
> > e82c64be9b45 ("net: stmmac: avoid PHY speed change when configuring MTU")
> > 100dfa74cad9 ("net: dev_queue_xmit() llist adoption")  
> 
> The special coding style for multi line comments for net and drivers/net 
> has been removed with
> 82b8000c28 ("net: drop special comment style")
> 
> But I checked a few mails on the list and also found the old style in
> new patches.

We removed the check that _suggests_ the use of the superior style.
Aesthetic taste is not evenly distributed within the population.
But we still prefer the old style in netdev.

That said I don't think nit picking on comment style is productive,
in either direction.