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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] - trivial comment fixups in init/main.c
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:42:44 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1093509764.13514.2522.camel@bach> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040817184210.A24533@infradead.org>

On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 03:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Fine with me.  These comments were modified at the request of
> > Andrew Morton, who wanted the comment style to be consistent.
> > I actually agree with your position, but I wanted to follow
> > what Andrew wanted here.
> 
> Please fix the comments anyway.  Rusty's preffered style is by far the
> minority in core kernel code.

I went back and looked; you're right.  Generally, I hate to waste
vertical whitespace inside a function.

As I said, the balance with a color-coded editor is different than when
reading code on paper.

Cheers,
Rusty.
-- 
Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell


      reply	other threads:[~2004-08-26  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-13 18:39 [PATCH] - trivial comment fixups in init/main.c Tim Bird
2004-08-17  9:53 ` Rusty Russell
2004-08-17 11:45   ` Adam Kropelin
2004-08-17 17:31   ` Tim Bird
2004-08-17 17:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-08-26  8:42       ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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