From: Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
esr@thyrsus.com, Legacy Fishtank <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>,
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>,
"Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: State of the new config & build system
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 00:12:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C2CFC42.7000401@evision-ventures.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112281504210.23482-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>It would certainly fit nicely with the existing metadata. We already rip out
>>code comments via kernel-doc, and extending it to rip out
>>
>> - Help text
>> - Web site
>>
>...
>
>No no no.
>
>The comments can at least be helpful to programmers, whether ripped out or
>not.
>
>Extra stuff is not helpful to anybody, and is just really irritating. I
>personally despise source trees that start out with one page of copyright
>statement crap, it just detracts from the real _point_ of the .c file,
>which is to contain C code. Making it a comment requirement is
>
> - stupid:
> we have a filesystem, guys
>
Not quite... It is making moving patches through e-mail around easier...
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-28 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 140+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-28 0:24 State of the new config & build system Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 0:54 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-28 0:57 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 1:15 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 1:35 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 1:37 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 1:41 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 1:47 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 1:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 2:01 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 14:16 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 17:14 ` Christer Weinigel
2001-12-28 17:39 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 1:44 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 4:09 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-30 3:34 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2001-12-30 4:24 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-30 14:37 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2001-12-29 17:11 ` Christer Weinigel
2001-12-28 17:43 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 18:17 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 20:54 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 9:24 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-12-29 16:28 ` Larry McVoy
2002-01-01 4:03 ` Mike Touloumtzis
2002-01-01 8:26 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-06 8:55 ` [kbuild-devel] " Martin Mares
2002-01-06 22:19 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-09 17:16 ` Martin Mares
2002-01-01 8:55 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-12-28 22:31 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-12-28 23:02 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 14:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 20:56 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-12-28 21:16 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 22:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 23:44 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-12-30 12:05 ` [kbuild-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2001-12-29 1:27 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 1:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 1:57 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 2:10 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-29 4:06 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-29 13:32 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-29 20:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-29 1:26 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 3:58 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-29 4:21 ` Mike Castle
2001-12-29 4:44 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 4:52 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-12-29 11:10 ` PORTUGUês EM?? Astinus
2001-12-29 6:59 ` State of the new config & build system Nicholas Knight
2001-12-29 7:42 ` Miles Lane
2001-12-29 8:02 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-29 8:11 ` Mike Castle
2001-12-29 7:41 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-29 8:13 ` Andrew Morton
2001-12-29 9:40 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-03 10:46 ` Pavel Machek
2002-01-03 20:29 ` Dave Jones
2002-01-03 20:35 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-03 20:46 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-03 21:30 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-03 21:50 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-03 22:11 ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-03 22:44 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-04 1:49 ` Andreas Bombe
2002-01-04 2:31 ` Keith Owens
2002-01-04 21:40 ` Andreas Bombe
2001-12-28 22:51 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-29 2:54 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 12:43 ` Kai Germaschewski
2001-12-28 1:22 ` Dave Jones
2001-12-28 1:36 ` [kbuild-devel] " Tom Rini
2001-12-28 1:36 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 1:38 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 1:30 ` [kbuild-devel] " Keith Owens
2001-12-28 9:26 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 9:42 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-28 16:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 20:01 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 20:38 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-29 0:50 ` Keith Owens
2001-12-29 0:55 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 18:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 22:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 22:08 ` [kbuild-devel] " Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 22:29 ` Larry McVoy
2001-12-28 22:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 22:58 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-29 9:18 ` Giacomo A. Catenazzi
2001-12-31 22:51 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-31 22:55 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2002-01-01 1:21 ` Peter Samuelson
2001-12-28 19:08 ` Riley Williams
2001-12-28 19:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 20:26 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-28 20:39 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-30 13:58 ` [kbuild-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2001-12-30 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-12-30 20:53 ` Hartmut Holz
2001-12-30 20:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-01-01 4:29 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-31 23:32 ` Horst von Brand
2001-12-28 23:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-30 11:42 ` [kbuild-devel] " Kai Henningsen
2001-12-31 8:24 ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-31 6:50 ` GOTO Masanori
2001-12-28 22:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 22:31 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-29 21:24 ` [kbuild-devel] " Tom Rini
2001-12-29 22:43 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-29 23:12 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-30 0:22 ` Russell King
2001-12-30 0:11 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-30 5:39 ` Rob Landley
2001-12-30 13:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-30 17:14 ` David Woodhouse
2001-12-30 17:32 ` Tom Rini
2001-12-30 17:44 ` Russell King
2001-12-28 20:39 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 20:41 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 20:45 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 21:19 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-28 21:12 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 22:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 23:05 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2001-12-29 0:59 ` Legacy Fishtank
2001-12-29 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-29 3:21 ` [kbuild-devel] " Keith Owens
2001-12-28 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-28 23:04 ` Eric S. Raymond
2001-12-28 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-12-28 23:12 ` Martin Dalecki [this message]
2001-12-29 13:01 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-28 22:47 ` Martin Dalecki
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2001-12-28 23:25 Stewart Smith
2001-12-29 12:01 Wayne.Brown
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