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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Correct filenames in comments.
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:21:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47101D9E.1090700@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071013004332.GA18760@redhat.com>

Dave Jones wrote:
> I never really understood the motivation behind putting the filename
> in a comment, but this fixes up a bunch of them that are now wrong
> post-merge.

Presumably it is there just in case you print them out with lpr instead 
of enscript, or if your editor doesn't tell you the filename.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-10-13  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-13  0:43 Correct filenames in comments Dave Jones
2007-10-13  0:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-13  0:58   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-13  0:58   ` Dave Jones
2007-10-13  1:10   ` Delete " Dave Jones
2007-10-13  1:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-10-13 11:32 ` Correct " Christoph Hellwig

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