Re: Configure.help editorial policy

Eric Windisch (ericw@grokthis.net)
Sat, 22 Dec 2001 03:33:34 -0500


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 why the stuff in /linux/documentation has fallen up to two years out of date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.

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Eric Windisch
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