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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>,
	Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	x86@kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: style fascism for xen assemblies
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:34:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090205173430.GA9233@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <498B226A.2020900@goop.org>


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Impact: style cleanup
>>
>> Make the following sytle cleanups.
>>
>> * drop unnecessary //#include from xen-asm_32.S
>>   
> Fine.
>> * compulsive adding of space after comma
>>   
> Fine.
>> * reformat multiline comments
>>   
>
> I don't really like what you've done here.  There are two problems:
>
>    * If you're going to convert comments of the form
>
>      /* This is a small comment which
>         happens to be longer than a line. */
>          
>
>      then you should convert it to full winged-style, rather than just
>      sticking '*' on the front of the second line.
>    * All the big block comments look crowded and cramped now, which
>      makes them harder to read and maintain.  All those '*'s are just
>      visual noise. (They make a bit more sense in C code to distinguish
>      comment from code, but asm code looks so different from comment
>      that they're not necessary here.)
>
> But Ingo's already pulled it, so I guess I'm stuck with it.

i pulled it and i already fixed all the proper winged style comments as 
well. Could you double-check the end result please?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-31  1:42 [PATCH 2/3] xen: make direct versions of irq_enable/disable/save/restore to common code Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-05  6:31 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-05 15:00   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-05 16:04     ` [PATCH] x86: style fascism for xen assemblies Tejun Heo
2009-02-05 16:57       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-05 17:31       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-02-05 17:34         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-05 17:42         ` Tejun Heo

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