linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 21/35] Unionfs: Inode operations

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Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:42:02 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>,
	"Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jsipek@...sunysb.edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...l.org, hch@...radead.org,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	mhalcrow@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/35] Unionfs: Inode operations

On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:07:15 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:04:27 -0500
> Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:50:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > This
> > > 
> > > 	/*
> > > 	 * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
> > > 	 * adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
> > > 	 * incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
> > > 	 */
> > > 
> > > is probably the most common, and is what I use when forced to descrog
> > > comments.
> > 
> > This what I normally do by default, unless it's a one-line comment, in
> > which case my preference is usually for this:
> > 
> > /* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur */
> 
> yup.
> 
> > I'm not convinced we really do _need_ to standardize on comment styles
> > (I can foresee thousands and thousands of trivial patches being
> > submitted and we'd probably be better off encouraging people to spend
> > time actually improving the documentation instead of reformatting it :-), 
> > but if were going to standardize, that would be my vote.
> 
> Sure.  comment-relaying-out patches would not be particularly welcome ;)

I third that.  Not a janitors (or anyone's) task/busy-work.

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~Randy
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