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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: Yet more ARM breakage in linux-next
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 15:46:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081203154629.bba4e5e4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49371848.2080804@oracle.com>

On Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:37:44 -0800
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:

> > (Yes, classic useless kerneldoc documentation doesn't actually *say* 
> > this clearly).
>  
> oh fud.  That's not a fault of kernel-doc, just of whoever wrote it.
> It's only as good as someone makes it.

For some reason, the act of typing in some kerneldoc makes people's
brains turn off.  Perhaps it's because "oh, I am supposed to type some
documentation here" instead of "gee, I think this code is unclear,
let's clarify that".


  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-03 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-03 19:29 Yet more ARM breakage in linux-next Russell King
2008-12-03 20:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-03 23:22   ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-03 23:37     ` Randy Dunlap
2008-12-03 23:46       ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-12-04  0:10         ` Alan Cox
2008-12-04  0:01       ` David Miller
2008-12-04  0:18         ` Randy Dunlap
2008-12-04  1:27       ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-04  2:56         ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-12-04  0:31     ` Russell King
2008-12-04  3:06       ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-12-04  1:33     ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-04  2:15       ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-04  3:55         ` Mike Frysinger
2008-12-04  9:18   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-12-04 14:12     ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-07 21:50       ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-12-08  6:20         ` Rusty Russell

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