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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Yorick de Wid <ydewid@gmail.com>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 09:44:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnvepn9p.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210208150447.87104-1-ydewid@gmail.com>

Yorick de Wid <ydewid@gmail.com> writes:

> From: Yorick de Wid <yorickdewid@users.noreply.github.com>
>
> There is no need to need to name Microsoft. The point is clear without that context.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yorick de Wid <ydewid@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index 98227226c4e..5608ed2931f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -306,8 +306,7 @@ that counts the number of active users, you should call that
>  
>  Encoding the type of a function into the name (so-called Hungarian
>  notation) is asinine - the compiler knows the types anyway and can check
> -those, and it only confuses the programmer. No wonder Microsoft makes buggy
> -programs.
> +those, and it only confuses the programmer.

Yeah, the time for that has probably passed.  Applied, thanks.

jon

P.S. This CC line in your original:

> Cc: Yorick de Wid <yorickdewid@users.noreply.github.com>, Yorick de Wid <ydewid@gmail.com>

Seems sure to create errors; maybe that could be left out in the future?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-11 16:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-08 15:04 [PATCH] docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric Yorick de Wid
2021-02-08 15:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-11 16:44 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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