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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/11] Add operations to qlist to allow it to be used as a stack
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:13:45 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFC4249.8020702@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AFC3E2D.4050002@redhat.com>

Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Unfortunately. There are places where such comments could be a good
> specification on what an interface is actually meant to work like
> (particularly in error cases). Currently you often can't tell if the
> implementation or the caller of a function is buggy.
>
> Not sure if they are really useful for the simple qlist.c functions (but
> even there the function name does not tell me what it's doing with NULL
> parameters), but it might be helpful to have a general discussion about
> it. I think in general qemu is poorly commented.
>   

I agree, but I don't think the solution is forcing boiler plate 
commenting styles.  I think what we could improve on is asking people to 
comment bits of code during review.

> Kevin
>   
-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-12 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-11 17:28 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] Properly escape QDECREF macro arguments Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/11] Add operations to qlist to allow it to be used as a stack Anthony Liguori
2009-11-12 15:33   ` Kevin Wolf
2009-11-12 16:46     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-12 16:56       ` Kevin Wolf
2009-11-12 17:13         ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-11-12 17:20           ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-13  8:51           ` Kevin Wolf
2009-11-12 17:17         ` Ian Molton
2009-11-11 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/11] Allow strings to grow in size Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/11] Add a QFloat datatype Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/11] Add unit test for QFloat Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/11] Add a QBool type Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 17:28 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/11] Add a lexer for JSON Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/11] Add a JSON message boundary identifier Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/11] Add a JSON parser Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/11] Add a QObject JSON wrapper Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 18:12   ` [Qemu-devel] " Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-11 19:39     ` Anthony Liguori
2009-11-11 19:58       ` Luiz Capitulino
2009-11-11 17:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/11] Add a unit test for JSON support Anthony Liguori

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