If you write good code, you really don't need comments to read it, so you should take that has your basis (I'm not saying don't comment, but you should really think about why you are commenting and if it's useful to other programmers that will read the code). Dave On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 18:19, Timur Tabi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm working on a driver that I might try to get incorporated into the > official Linux kernel source tree. One of the things I've noticed while > looking at the current Linux kernel source code is that it's very poorly > documented, at least by my standards. > > For my code, I want to add lots of Javadoc-style comments. For > instance, I comment every function and structure, and almost every local > variable. > > Would Linus and/or his lieutenants reject my code because it's commented > too much? -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
