On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 04:00:50PM +0100, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > explanation of this function would be nice. remember to answer "how?"
> > and "why?", not "what?".
>
> Wasn't it the other way around?
> Citing linux/Documentation/CodingStyle, section 7 "Comments":
>
> "Generally, you want your comments to tell WHAT your code does, not HOW."
>
> HOW and WHY should be obvious by the source code, unless
> the sources are a mess.
Yes, good point, thanks for the correction.
Jeff
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