[Explains ASCII vs ASCIIZ]
> The semantics are unambiguous and clearly different. To document
> something as being one or the other type has significant meaning,
> and to tamper with the annotation enough to change the meaning
> of the comment is a disservice.
Sure it is. And the eror was caught almost immediately. And it was in a
_test_ release of the kernel, that wasn't supposed to last more than a week
or so in any case.
> This is yet another reason why people not in the know shouldn't
> even be tampering with *comments*, let alone *code*.
Everybody has done a mistake sometime. Heck, even code that Linus himself
wrote and posted has contained stupid errors. Latest you'll find explained
by himself just here...
If you come down this hard on everybody who posts a patch that contains
bugs, you are doing a _big_ disservice to the Linux community.
Thanks, but no thanks.
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