Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 14:42:02 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:07:15 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006 09:04:27 -0500
> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 01:50:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > This
> > > 
> > > 	/*
> > > 	 * Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur
> > > 	 * adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor
> > > 	 * incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
> > > 	 */
> > > 
> > > is probably the most common, and is what I use when forced to descrog
> > > comments.
> > 
> > This what I normally do by default, unless it's a one-line comment, in
> > which case my preference is usually for this:
> > 
> > /* Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur */
> 
> yup.
> 
> > I'm not convinced we really do _need_ to standardize on comment styles
> > (I can foresee thousands and thousands of trivial patches being
> > submitted and we'd probably be better off encouraging people to spend
> > time actually improving the documentation instead of reformatting it :-), 
> > but if were going to standardize, that would be my vote.
> 
> Sure.  comment-relaying-out patches would not be particularly welcome ;)

I third that.  Not a janitors (or anyone's) task/busy-work.

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~Randy
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