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Message-Id: <20081121103101.877506e3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:31:01 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> Cc: trond.myklebust@....uio.no, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, nfsv4@...ux-nfs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 24/45] CacheFiles: Add a hook to write a single page of data to an inode [ver #41] On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:43:41 +0000 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote: > > > +/** > > > + * generic_file_buffered_write_one_page - Write a single page of data to an > > > + * inode > > > > kerneldoc doesn't permit line breaks in this context (unless it got > > fixed recently) > > So you advocate a line exceeding 80 chars? yup > I contend that kerneldoc is a bad idea in many ways: it encourages people to > be lazy and to not write proper interface documentation. yes, for some reason kereldoc-formatted comments usually aren't very useful. They very often just don't convey useful insights. I wonder why. Maybe people think that once they've filled out the form and ticked all the boxes, they're done. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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