Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't encourage new code to use "networking" style comments

[David Miller]

From: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:27:22 -0700

> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:24:18AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 10:55 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
>> I believe the only person that actually cares about
>> the networking
>> comment style is David Miller.
> 
> Which is why I've CC'd him. If even *he* doesn't care about having
> this warning in checkpatch, then why should anyone else?

Well it potentially saves one round trip for patch submissions.

What I'm not going to do is let people start using different comment
style even for new code in files like net/core/whatever.c after I've
spent nearly two decades getting them to be one way so far.