On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 12:11:09AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 06:51:50PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > * Return: > > > * * 0 - ready to wait > > > * * 1 - acquired the lock > > > * * <0 - error > > > > > > I'm fine with either though, just curious if this would be an improvement, or if > > > we have an established policy (which I didn't find in the docs on docs...). > > > > I prefer myself to use "-". IMHO, a dash is visually less polluted > > than an asterisk, when reading text files, but I guess this is a > > matter of taste. > > Not to mention it just reads very awkward in a comment. I don't much > care about it in any other context. Agreed, the - is better (and equally functional - so yay). > > And I really _really_ hate to see that rest crap spread here. Can't we > just delete all that nonsense and go back to 80 column 7bit ASCII ? > Depending on the source this could be a genuine appeal or satire.... :-D In this case, I don't think the ReST changes (with -) make the comment block any less readable in the C files. > It is an incentive not to use kerneldoc.. > I like the kerneldoc if for no other reason that it helps keeps formatting consistent. I would object if I started seeing XML or some other horrible formatting style showing up in the code, but this honestly seems like a fairly minimal imposition... but that's me. -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
