Re: [PATCH] x86: style fascism for xen assemblies

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 12:42:43 EST


Hello,

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I don't really like what you've done here. There are two problems:
>
> * If you're going to convert comments of the form
>
> /* This is a small comment which
> happens to be longer than a line. */
>
> then you should convert it to full winged-style, rather than just
> sticking '*' on the front of the second line.

I find fully winged style a bit excessive when a comment is in the
middle of code and not very long so I kind of just chose middleground.

> * All the big block comments look crowded and cramped now, which
> makes them harder to read and maintain. All those '*'s are just
> visual noise. (They make a bit more sense in C code to distinguish
> comment from code, but asm code looks so different from comment
> that they're not necessary here.)
>
> But Ingo's already pulled it, so I guess I'm stuck with it.

Yeap, I really didn't expect everyone to be happy about it. Style
cleanups always get ugly, so the fasicm joke on the subject. Anyways,
if you feel strong against it, please feel free to change. I
personally don't mind one way or the other. I just wanted to make
things more consistent while at it.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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