From c06a9ebdb7a4f4823d4225fe789d8c20a1d534eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:35:11 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index de639eeeed50..faea0ec612bf 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/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
-- 
2.20.1