Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: revert --strict test for net/ and drivers/netblock comment style

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Apr 16 2012 - 16:34:06 EST


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Revert the --strict test for the old preferred block
>> comment style in drivers/net and net/
>
> Emphatic NAK.

Ingo, I don't think you understood. That test reverts the thing you
wanted reverted wrt the block comments.

It does not revert the *other* things in that patch (testing for empty
braces etc).

So Joe's patch seems to be exactly what you asked for,

Linus
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