Re: [PATCH 7/8] bridge: add some comments for NETDEV_RELEASE

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 13:50 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon,  6 Aug 2012 22:23:31 +0800
> 
> > +	/*
> > +	 * We don't notify NETDEV_RELEASE event, as this will
> > +	 * stop netconsole on the bridge.
> > +	 */
> 
> Please format comments in the networking:
> 
> 	/* Like
> 	 * this.
> 	 */

Maybe add a networking specific block comment style
to checkpatch. This doesn't trigger on files outside
of drivers/net and net.

---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    7 +++++++
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 913d6bd..560f012 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1873,6 +1873,13 @@ sub process {
 			    "No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $hereprev);
 		}
 
+		if ($realfile =~ m@^(drivers/net/|net/)@ &&
+		    $rawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*\/\*[ \t]*$/ &&
+		    $prevrawline =~ /^\+[ \t]*$/) {
+			WARN("NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE",
+			     "networking block comments don't use an empty /* line, use /* Comment...\n" . $hereprev);
+		}
+
 # check for spaces at the beginning of a line.
 # Exceptions:
 #  1) within comments