Re: [PATCH] docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

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?