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Subject[PATCH] checkpatch: revert --strict test for net/ and drivers/net block comment style
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Revert the --strict test for the old preferred block
comment style in drivers/net and net/

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

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grumble. Don't reply to email from internet cafes.

On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 12:44 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 04/16/2012 02:17 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > aad4f6149831 checkpatch: add --strict tests for braces, comments and casts
> > made the default checkpatch run complain about the following
> > perfectly fine multi-line comment block:

No, it didn't.

It only made checkpatch complain if --strict was
added to the command line arguments.

I don't care about the comment style, it is/was
David Miller's preferred style for drivers/net and
net/

I think a straight revert isn't appropriate.

Here's one that just removes the comment check.

scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ------
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index de639ee..faea0ec 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1869,12 +1869,6 @@ sub process {
"No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $hereprev);
}

- if ($rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*[ \t]*$/ &&
- $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*$/) {
- CHK("BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
- "Don't begin block comments with only a /* line, use /* comment...\n" . $hereprev);
- }
-
# check for spaces at the beginning of a line.
# Exceptions:
# 1) within comments



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