Some generall questions...

Some generall questions...

[Janosch Machowinski]

Hey,
I got 2 questions :
First, are we supporting some architecture, that does not support the 
hlt instruction ??

And the second one, is it diswanted to write comments in the kernel 
source, or are most programmers just to lazy to do it ?

Thx
   Janosch


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Re: Some generall questions...

[randy_dunlap]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:36:15 +0200 Janosch Machowinski wrote:

> Hey,
> I got 2 questions :
> First, are we supporting some architecture, that does not support the 
> hlt instruction ??

No idea.

> And the second one, is it diswanted to write comments in the kernel 
> source, or are most programmers just to lazy to do it ?

a.  we don't want comments for obvious language constructs, e.g.,
don't do this:

	err_count++;		/* increment the error count */

b.  it seems to be a challenge sometimes to get good comments and to
keep comments and code synchronized.  :(
But comments are generally a good thing, so that someone can understand
the intent of some code or how it's accomplished, if it's tricky.
And when adding new globally-visible functions, please use the
kerneldoc format for them (see linux/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt).

---
~Randy


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