Re: PATCH: flags, paging guest kernel, various

[Ramon van Handel]

Ulrich Weigand wrote:

> In any case, please don't misunderstand me:  of course,
> adding explanations in comments, including your name etc.
> is fine with me if you want to do that.  I just don't want
> to start instituting policies like 'everytime you change
> something you must add a comment with your name' :-/
>
> This doesn't work, isn't enforceable, and IMO isn't
> even especially useful in any case.

Well, it wouldn't be practical to do that with every comment anyway ---
nor would it be neccessary.  OTOH, it does seem to me to be useful
for a specific type of comment -- the "fix me/change me later" kind of
comment.  Normal code documentation doesn't need to be named but
for this kind of comment it's often useful to have a fast reference on
who made it, in case you're confronted with it when coding something
else (or in case you want to fix it ;))

-- Ramon