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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Khadija Kamran <kamrankhadijadj@gmail.com>,
	outreachy@lists.linux.dev,  linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: rtl8192u: remove change history from comments
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:04:32 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2303251503280.2860@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZB7n23tzWxGmBPe4@kroah.com>



On Sat, 25 Mar 2023, Greg KH wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 05:13:17PM +0500, Khadija Kamran wrote:
> > Developers use git to browse the file history so revision history is not
> > required in the comments.
> > Remove the change history information from the comments.

I'm not sure to follow the argument.  The file was integrated into the
Linux kernel in 2009.  So there is no record of the 2008 date in the git
history of the Linux kernel.  Maybe it's not interesting, but at least the
explanation doesn't seem right.

julia

> >
> > Signed-off-by: Khadija Kamran <kamrankhadijadj@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c | 36 ----------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 36 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c
> > index a88686be3523..885c5966342f 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/r8192U_dm.c
> > @@ -8,11 +8,6 @@
> >   * Abstract:
> >   *	HW dynamic mechanism.
> >   *
> > - * Major Change History:
> > - *	When		Who				What
> > - *	----------	--------------- -------------------------------
> > - *	2008-05-14	amy                     create version 0 porting from windows code.
> > - *
> >   *--
> >   */
> >  #include "r8192U.h"
> > @@ -276,10 +271,6 @@ void init_rate_adaptive(struct net_device *dev)
> >   *
> >   * Return:		NONE
> >   *
> > - * Revised History:
> > - *	When		Who		Remark
> > - *	05/26/08	amy	Create version 0 porting from windows code.
> > - *
> >   *---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> You can remove the extra blank comment line as well.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
>

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-25 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-25 12:13 [PATCH 0/3] staging: rtl8192u: clean up comments in r8192U_dm.c Khadija Kamran
2023-03-25 12:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] staging: rtl8192u: reformat block comments Khadija Kamran
2023-03-25 12:23   ` Greg KH
2023-03-25 12:31     ` Khadija Kamran
2023-03-25 12:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] staging: rtl8192u: remove change history from comments Khadija Kamran
2023-03-25 12:23   ` Greg KH
2023-03-25 14:04     ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2023-03-25 12:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] staging: rtl8192u: remove code " Khadija Kamran
2023-03-25 12:22   ` Greg KH

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