The patch titled
Subject: CodingStyle: add networking specific block comment style
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
codingstyle-add-networking-specific-block-comment-style.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: CodingStyle: add networking specific block comment style
The block comment style in net/ and drivers/net is non-standard.
Document it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Allan, Bruce W" <bruce.w.allan@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/CodingStyle | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff -puN Documentation/CodingStyle~codingstyle-add-networking-specific-block-comment-style Documentation/CodingStyle
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle~codingstyle-add-networking-specific-block-comment-style
+++ a/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -454,6 +454,16 @@ The preferred style for long (multi-line
* 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.
+
+ /* 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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Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
kstrto-add-documentation.patch
simple_strto-annotate-function-as-obsolete.patch
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