From 82b8000c28b56b014ce52a1f1581bef4af148681 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:09:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] net: drop special comment style As we discussed in the room at netdevconf earlier this week, drop the requirement for special comment style for netdev. For checkpatch, the general check accepts both right now, so simply drop the special request there as well. Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 12 ------------ Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 17 ----------------- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 10 ---------- 3 files changed, 39 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst index 04f6aa377a5d..8e30c8f7697d 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst @@ -629,18 +629,6 @@ The preferred style for long (multi-line) comments is: * with beginning and ending almost-blank lines. */ -For files in net/ and drivers/net/ the preferred style for long (multi-line) -comments is a little different. - -.. code-block:: c - - /* The preferred comment style for files in net/ and drivers/net - * looks like this. - * - * It is nearly the same as the generally preferred comment style, - * but there is no initial almost-blank line. - */ - It's also important to comment data, whether they are basic types or derived types. To this end, use just one data declaration per line (no commas for multiple data declarations). This leaves you room for a small comment on each diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst index fe8616397d63..30d24eecdaaa 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst @@ -355,23 +355,6 @@ just do it. As a result, a sequence of smaller series gets merged quicker and with better review coverage. Re-posting large series also increases the mailing list traffic. -Multi-line comments -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - -Comment style convention is slightly different for networking and most of -the tree. Instead of this:: - - /* - * foobar blah blah blah - * another line of text - */ - -it is requested that you make it look like this:: - - /* foobar blah blah blah - * another line of text - */ - Local variable ordering ("reverse xmas tree", "RCS") ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 39032224d504..4427572b2477 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4015,16 +4015,6 @@ sub process { } } -# Block comment styles -# Networking with an initial /* - if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ && - $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*[ \t]*$/ && - $rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\*/ && - $realline > 3) { # Do not warn about the initial copyright comment block after SPDX-License-Identifier - WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE", - "networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev); - } - # Block comments use * on subsequent lines if ($prevline =~ /$;[ \t]*$/ && #ends in comment $prevrawline =~ /^\+.*?\/\*/ && #starting /*