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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>
Joe Perches 13 years ago
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      scripts/checkpatch.pl

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scripts/checkpatch.pl

@@ -1869,12 +1869,6 @@ sub process {
 			    "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