From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751758Ab1HMGWn (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:22:43 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:33503 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751634Ab1HMGWm (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:22:42 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20110812.232235.905351953818584023.davem@davemloft.net> To: justinmattock@gmail.com Cc: trivial@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10]drivers:atm Remove pointless "@" from various parts of the kernel From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1313195235-4522-4-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> References: <1313195235-4522-1-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <1313195235-4522-4-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.2 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (shards.monkeyblade.net [198.137.202.13]); Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:22:35 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Justin P. Mattock" Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 17:27:09 -0700 > From: "Justin P. Mattock" > > The patch series below removes some pointless "@"'s in various parts of the kernel. > Note: some might be useful, but then again, some just seemed a waste of space. > (and since the kernel is become bloated, might as well diet! even if it's a few bits) > > Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock These are like "XXX" markers in comments, used so you can quickly look for areas that knowingly need improvement in the code. I really think these patches are a waste of time and make things worse not better, the side effect of your patch is that we'll be losing information.