Re: [PATCH 2/5] TOMOYO: Clarify lock protected section.

From: Li Zefan
Date: Mon Jun 01 2009 - 22:36:03 EST


Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Li Zefan wrote:
>> Tetsuo Handa wrote:
>>> Enclose reader section in
>>> /***** READER SECTION START *****/
>>> and
>>> /***** READER SECTION END *****/
>>> and writer section in
>>> /***** WRITER SECTION START *****/
>>> and
>>> /***** WRITER SECTION END *****/
>>> in order to avoid oversighting lock protected section.
>>>
>> This makes me a bit uncomfortable..
>>
>> IMHO this seems ugly, useless, and even harmful. If it's helpful,
>> we'd be doing this for the whole kernel tree, which is crazy..
>>
>> Or does tomoyo do this for it's special reason?
>
> I intended to help reviewers to visualize the range of protected section
> at a glance. But if reviewers feel noisy, I can remove these markers.
>

I don't think it help review, but instead those '*'+UPPERCASE comments
are disturbing.



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