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* Re: [PATCH] Add kerneldoc for flush_scheduled_work()
@ 2009-08-13 12:06 Randy Dunlap
  2009-08-13 14:51 ` Johannes Weiner
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 15+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2009-08-13 12:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: hannes; +Cc: stern, James.Bottomley, akpm, apw, mingo, linux-kernel, peterz

From: hannes@cmpxchg.org

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:25:14AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 10:13 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > > On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > And here I was thinking kerneldoc doesn't actually work 
> > > > > like that, but perhaps Randy fixed it so the initial 
> > > > > description can line-wrap?
> > > 
> > > Yes, that's what I thought too.  If kerneldoc has been fixed 
> > > then the description line certainly should get wrapped.
> > 
> > I really don't think it needs to be fixed: it's a feature not a 
> > bug.  It requires people writing kernel doc actually to think of 
> > one line summaries.
> 
> As long as the argument is that it's good to have limitations just 
> because it has good effects as well (which the gist of your argument 
> seems to be), i disagree.
> 
> That's a very basic argument of freedom. Just consider the Gestapo 
> which was also a 'feature' to keep criminals in check. Did you know 
> that there were record low levels of petty criminality both in nazi 
> Germany and during communism (and under just about any totalitarian 
> regime)? Still nobody in their right mind is arguing that just due 
> to that they are the right social model ...

| Although I really like how you Godwin'd kerneldoc comments ;-), we do
| have other features that are features because of their limiting effect
| all over the place, don't we?  The 80-columns code rule e.g. or our
| limited set of allowed indenting characters.

> I think this DocBook limitation needs to be fixed, because there are 
> legitimate cases where a function name got too long (for no fault of 
> its own, but for properties of the name-space it is operating in), 
> and we do not want a nanny state beat it into a single line.

| Agreed, just as in the other rules, one should be able to bend this
| one once in a while without technical consequences, i.e. without
| kerneldoc breaking.


Any of you, please feel free to send patches.  Thanks.

~Randy

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2009-08-13 12:06 [PATCH] Add kerneldoc for flush_scheduled_work() Randy Dunlap
2009-08-13 14:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-08-13 15:04   ` James Bottomley
2009-08-13 16:20     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-08-13 18:08       ` Johannes Weiner
2009-08-14 18:23         ` Randy Dunlap
2009-08-16 19:13           ` [PATCH] scsi: fix func names in kernel-doc Randy Dunlap
2009-08-18  9:04           ` [PATCH] Add kerneldoc for flush_scheduled_work() Johannes Weiner
2009-08-19 22:23             ` Johannes Weiner
2009-08-19 23:21               ` Randy Dunlap
2009-08-19 23:27                 ` Randy Dunlap
2009-08-24 19:06                 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-08-24 19:27                   ` Randy Dunlap
2009-08-24 20:09                     ` Johannes Weiner
2009-08-24 20:25                       ` Randy Dunlap

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