Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:33:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:33:26 -0500 Received: from bwbohh.net ([66.96.192.22]:59014 "EHLO garcia.hostnoc.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:33:17 -0500 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:33:34 -0500 From: Eric Windisch To: Linux Kernel List Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy Message-ID: <20011222033334.B25321@grokthis.net> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel List In-Reply-To: <20011220143247.A19377@thyrsus.com> <3C2310A4.1010004@purplet.demon.co.uk> <20011222082444.EXOZ22539.femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011222082444.EXOZ22539.femail25.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 07:23:13PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > This may be why Andrea Arcangelli refuses to write any documentation at all, > Linus seems to have a prediliction for dropping documentation-only patches, > why the stuff in /linux/documentation has fallen up to two years out of date > at times, and why "Rusty's Unreliable Guides" (the best source of > documentation on the netfilter code, made available by the author himself at > "http://netfilter.samba.org/unreliable-guides/") says, and I quote: > No doubt. The file drivers/block/loop.c has about 21 comments, although most of them are useless. The file is over 1700 lines long. It would be a lot easier to grok this code if it didn't look like an entry for the IOCCC :) Comments would be nice. -- Eric Windisch http://bwbohh.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/