Some generall questions...
Hey,
I got 2 questions :
First, are we supporting some architecture, that does not support the hlt instruction ??
And the second one, is it diswanted to write comments in the kernel source, or are most programmers just to lazy to do it ?
Thx
Janosch
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Quoted 4 lines · On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:36:15 +0200 Janosch Machowinski wrote:
Hey,
I got 2 questions :
First, are we supporting some architecture, that does not support the hlt instruction ??
No idea.
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And the second one, is it diswanted to write comments in the kernel source, or are most programmers just to lazy to do it ?
a. we don't want comments for obvious language constructs, e.g., don't do this:
err_count++; /* increment the error count */
b. it seems to be a challenge sometimes to get good comments and to keep comments and code synchronized. :(
But comments are generally a good thing, so that someone can understand the intent of some code or how it's accomplished, if it's tricky. And when adding new globally-visible functions, please use the kerneldoc format for them (see linux/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt).
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~Randy
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