checkpatch: revert --strict test for net/ and drivers/net block comment style
Revert the --strict test for the old preferred block
comment style in drivers/net and net/
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index de639eee..faea0ec 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1869,12 +1869,6 @@
"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
