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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] signals: document CLD_CONTINUED notification mechanics
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:36:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080311183606.GE586@tv-sign.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080311021741.A863826F991@magilla.localdomain>

(surprisingly, this is rather important issue for me ;)

On 03/10, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
> >  		if (why) {
> > +			/* The first thread which returns from finish_stop()
> 
> Canonical style is:
> 
> 			/*
> 			 * The first thread that returns from finish_stop()

Yes, I know. But the latter needs an extra line! Don't get me wrong, I am
not worrying about the result of `wc ...`, and I often add the blank lines
to improve the readability. But since the comment block itself adds the
"space", why should we lessen the number of the code lines visible to the
reader?

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-11 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-09 21:53 [PATCH] signals: document CLD_CONTINUED notification mechanics Oleg Nesterov
2008-03-11  2:17 ` Roland McGrath
2008-03-11 18:36   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2008-03-11 20:28     ` Roland McGrath

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