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From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: "'Linux Kernel List'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [OT?] Coding Style
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:52:37 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A6D7E95.C86BF650@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28560036253BD41191A10000F8BCBD116BDCC5@zcard00g.ca.nortel.com>, <28560036253BD41191A10000F8BCBD116BDCC5@zcard00g.ca.nortel.com> <20010122082254.D9530@work.bitmover.com>

Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> Please don't listen to this.  The only place you really want comments is
> 
>     a) at the top of files, describing the point of the file;
>     b) at the top of functions, if the purpose of the function is not obvious;
>     c) in line, when the code is not obvious.

One other _very_ useful place: in header files.  This is a place where
a comment-per-line is appropriate.

For example, include/linux/fs.h.  Shame about `struct inode' though.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-23 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-22 16:04 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-22 16:19 ` Mike Harrold
2001-01-22 16:22 ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-22 18:29   ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-01-22 23:20   ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-01-23  0:54     ` Werner Almesberger
2001-01-23 12:28   ` Steve Underwood
2001-01-23 16:17     ` Nicolas Noble
2001-01-23 21:16       ` David Benfell
2001-01-23 12:52   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-01-23 18:10   ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-22 17:43 ` Gregory Maxwell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-01-23 22:22 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-23 16:47 Jesse Pollard
2001-01-24  0:07 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-23 15:41 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-23 15:58 ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-23 16:00 ` Mike Harrold
2001-01-23 16:32   ` Joe deBlaquiere
2001-01-24  1:14     ` Steve Underwood
2001-01-25 13:33       ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-24  5:42     ` Brent Rowland
2001-01-24  5:50       ` Andre Hedrick
2001-01-26  0:20   ` James Stevenson
2001-01-23 16:14 ` Georg Nikodym
2001-01-23 18:05   ` Christopher Friesen
2001-01-23 18:41     ` Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
2001-01-23 18:44   ` Georg Nikodym
2001-01-23 18:53   ` James Kelly
2001-01-23 17:42 ` John Kodis
2001-01-25 13:38   ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-25 13:25 ` Kai Henningsen
2001-01-25 19:30   ` Harald Arnesen
2001-01-22 21:09 Stephen Satchell
2001-01-22 16:42 ` Mark I Manning IV
2001-01-22 23:56 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-23  0:01   ` Larry McVoy
2001-01-23  6:37 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-01-23  8:37 ` Helge Hafting
2001-01-23 18:58   ` Alan Olsen
2001-01-22 17:53 Jonathan Earle
2001-01-20 15:32 Anton Altaparmakov
2001-01-20 16:19 ` [OT?] " profmakx.fmp
2001-01-21  5:10   ` Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
2001-01-21  5:50     ` Admin Mailing Lists
2001-01-21  5:58       ` Mike A. Harris
2001-01-21  7:07         ` Josh Myer
2001-01-21  7:20       ` Alan Olsen
2001-01-21 22:40       ` Mo McKinlay
2001-01-22  0:23         ` Admin Mailing Lists

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