From: Yorick de Wid <ydewid@gmail.com>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net
Cc: Yorick de Wid <yorickdewid@users.noreply.github.com>,
Yorick de Wid <ydewid@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 16:04:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210208150447.87104-1-ydewid@gmail.com> (raw)
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>
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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.
LOCAL variable names should be short, and to the point. If you have
some random integer loop counter, it should probably be called ``i``.
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2.30.0
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2021-02-08 15:04 Yorick de Wid [this message]
2021-02-08 15:15 ` [PATCH] docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric Matthew Wilcox
2021-02-11 16:44 ` Jonathan Corbet
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