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List:       linux-arm-kernel
Subject:    Re: race condition in do_IRQ
From:       Russell King - ARM Linux <linux () arm ! linux ! org ! uk>
Date:       2004-05-06 17:55:00
Message-ID: 20040506185500.E29709 () flint ! arm ! linux ! org ! uk
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:36:16PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Erik Mouw <erik@bitwizard.nl> writes:
> 
> > Of course he is. See Chapter 5 in Documentation/CodingStyle.
> 
> >From the same chapter: "You can make small comments to note or warn
> about something particularly clever (or ugly), but try to avoid
> excess" :-). Actually, this function already contains some comments,
> some of them being obvious from the code already.

But none of this is either clever or ugly.

One might argue that a machine which can add two numbers together and
produce the correct answer is clever.  That doesn't mean that we have
to document that operation today.

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