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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't encourage new code to use "networking" style comments
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 12:36:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493408192.1873.7.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170428192721.GA72697@google.com>

On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 12:27 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:24:18AM -0700, Joe Perches 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?

Last I looked, David still requests changes to patches
that don't follow that style.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2017-04-28 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-28 17:55 [PATCH] checkpatch: don't encourage new code to use "networking" style comments Brian Norris
2017-04-28 18:24 ` Joe Perches
2017-04-28 19:27   ` Brian Norris
2017-04-28 19:31     ` David Miller
2017-04-28 19:51       ` Brian Norris
2017-04-28 21:05         ` Joe Perches
2017-04-28 19:36     ` Joe Perches [this message]

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