From: Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add lib/parser.c kernel-doc
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:21:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1069021262.19499.55.camel@thalience> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031116160958.GW30485@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 11:09, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > -int match_int(substring_t *, int *result);
> > +int match_int(substring_t *s, int *result);
>
> What value does this "s" add? "result" is clearly useful documentation,
> but "s" says "There is no good name for this variable"
True, but that is what it is named in the function definition. I'll try
to think of a good name for these, but I guess a documentation patch is
not the place for that (since I'd want to change it in both declaration
and definition).
Your other comments are well-taken as well.
--
Will Dyson
"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-16 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-16 8:16 [PATCH] Add lib/parser.c kernel-doc Will Dyson
2003-11-16 16:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-11-16 18:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-16 18:33 ` viro
2003-11-16 22:21 ` Will Dyson [this message]
2003-11-16 22:37 ` Will Dyson
2003-11-17 7:28 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-11-17 9:29 ` Will Dyson
2003-11-17 16:55 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-17 19:38 ` Pat LaVarre
2003-11-18 5:10 ` Will Dyson
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