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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 12:34:54 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tejun Heo wrote:
>> Impact: style cleanup
>>
>> Make the following sytle cleanups.
>>
>> * drop unnecessary //#include from xen-asm_32.S
>>
> Fine.
>> * compulsive adding of space after comma
>>
> Fine.
>> * reformat multiline comments
>>
>
> 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.
> * 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.

i pulled it and i already fixed all the proper winged style comments as
well. Could you double-check the end result please?

Ingo
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