From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266525AbUHQReT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:34:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266526AbUHQReT (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:34:19 -0400 Received: from mail1.fw-sj.sony.com ([160.33.82.68]:26053 "EHLO mail1.fw-sj.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266525AbUHQReR (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:34:17 -0400 Message-ID: <41224105.5050706@am.sony.com> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:31:49 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rusty Russell CC: linux kernel , Adam Kropelin , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] - trivial comment fixups in init/main.c References: <20040817095601.4E7F22BEC3@ozlabs.org> In-Reply-To: <20040817095601.4E7F22BEC3@ozlabs.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rusty Russell wrote: > In message <40F42C44.5010603@am.sony.com> you write: > >>This patch has some trivial comment fixups for init/main.c, to bring >>the comments into consistency with the coding style of the kernel. > > > Personally, I prefer my comments quiet and unobtrusive, and I think > you'll find Linus' code tends to be the same. > > Not to start a flame war, but since I started using a colorizing > editor for code, I found there was no need to waste vertical space > with large banners. (This in my mind justifies the X project's entire > existence). > > Sorry, 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. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Co-Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics E-mail: tim.bird@am.sony.com =============================