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[net-next] net: drop special comment style

Message ID 20240716134822.028c84bbd92f.Ic187fbc5ba452463ef28feebbd5c18668adb0fec@changeid (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
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Series [net-next] net: drop special comment style | expand

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Context Check Description
netdev/series_format success Single patches do not need cover letters
netdev/tree_selection success Clearly marked for net-next
netdev/ynl success Generated files up to date; no warnings/errors; no diff in generated;
netdev/fixes_present success Fixes tag not required for -next series
netdev/header_inline success No static functions without inline keyword in header files
netdev/build_32bit success Errors and warnings before: 8 this patch: 8
netdev/build_tools success No tools touched, skip
netdev/cc_maintainers fail 10 maintainers not CCed: edumazet@google.com apw@canonical.com dwaipayanray1@gmail.com kuba@kernel.org joe@perches.com corbet@lwn.net linux-doc@vger.kernel.org pabeni@redhat.com workflows@vger.kernel.org lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
netdev/build_clang success Errors and warnings before: 8 this patch: 8
netdev/verify_signedoff success Signed-off-by tag matches author and committer
netdev/deprecated_api success None detected
netdev/check_selftest success No net selftest shell script
netdev/verify_fixes success No Fixes tag
netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn success Errors and warnings before: 8 this patch: 8
netdev/checkpatch success total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 39 lines checked
netdev/build_clang_rust success No Rust files in patch. Skipping build
netdev/kdoc success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/source_inline success Was 0 now: 0
netdev/contest success net-next-2024-07-17--03-00 (tests: 694)

Commit Message

Johannes Berg July 16, 2024, 8:48 p.m. UTC
From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

As we just discussed (in the room at netdevconf), 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.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
---
 Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 17 -----------------
 scripts/checkpatch.pl                       | 10 ----------
 2 files changed, 27 deletions(-)

Comments

Stephen Hemminger July 17, 2024, 2:35 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:48:23 -0700
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:

> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> As we just discussed (in the room at netdevconf), 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

Agree, the less special cases the better.

Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Alexandra Winter July 17, 2024, 9:22 a.m. UTC | #2
On 16.07.24 22:48, Johannes Berg wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> 
> As we just discussed (in the room at netdevconf), 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 17 -----------------
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl                       | 10 ----------
>  2 files changed, 27 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
> index 5e1fcfad1c4c..5a411c52b466 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst


I guess you should also remove the section in 

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index 7e768c65aa92..3ccda9f42cfa 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
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Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
index 5e1fcfad1c4c..5a411c52b466 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
@@ -356,23 +356,6 @@  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 2b812210b412..9a953b9169d6 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3997,16 +3997,6 @@  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 /*