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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Mel <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: page_alloc.c comments patch
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:48:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020418054835.GA26101@turbolinux.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204180306050.4760-100000@skynet>

On Apr 18, 2002  03:26 +0100, Mel wrote:
> This patch is a first cut effort at commenting how the buddy algorithm
> works for allocating and freeing blocks of pages. No code is changed so
> the impact is minimal to put it mildly

Two minor things I saw:
1) The function documentation comments need to start with "/**" - see
   linux/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt.
2) Please keep comments <= 80 columns.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-18  5:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-18  2:26 page_alloc.c comments patch Mel
2002-04-18  5:48 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2002-04-18 10:32 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
2002-04-18 10:47   ` Andrew Morton

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