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docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style

Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no
longer checks for this.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>

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Brian Norris and committed by
Jonathan Corbet 0aa76005 7159cf9f

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Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
··· 465 465 * for multi line comments. 466 466 */ 467 467 468 - The networking comment style is a bit different, with the first line 469 - not empty like the former:: 470 - 471 - /* This is the preferred comment style 472 - * for files in net/ and drivers/net/ 473 - */ 474 - 475 468 See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#commenting 476 469 477 470 **C99_COMMENTS**