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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Apr 28 2017 - 17:05:31 EST


On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 12:51 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> FWIW, I don't see this consistently applied at all. Unless my regexes
> are completely wrong [*], it's roughly 50/50 in drivers/net/ and net/,
> and roughly 40/60 (favoring "net" style) in net/core/.

More like 5:1 in net/

$ git grep -E -n "/\*[ \t]*\w" net | grep -v ":1:" | wc -l
30461
$ git grep -E -n "/\*[ \t]*$" net | grep -v ":1:" | wc -l
6061

grep -v ":1:" is to avoid the first line in the file comment