[PATCH] docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style

From: Brian Norris
Date: Fri Oct 17 2025 - 14:02:46 EST


Ironically, the block style comments in the checkpatch documentation are
not aligned properly. Correct that.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index d5c47e560324..d7fe023b3080 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -461,16 +461,16 @@ Comments
line comments is::

/*
- * This is the preferred style
- * for multi line comments.
- */
+ * This is the preferred style
+ * for multi line comments.
+ */

The networking comment style is a bit different, with the first line
not empty like the former::

/* This is the preferred comment style
- * for files in net/ and drivers/net/
- */
+ * for files in net/ and drivers/net/
+ */

See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#commenting

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