lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2001]   [Dec]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: 2.4.16 & OOM killer screw up (fwd)
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > The VM code lacks comments, and nobody except yourself understands
> > what it is supposed to be doing. That's a bug, don't you think?
>
> Lack of documentation is not a bug, period. Also it's not true that
> I'm the only one who understands it.

Without documentation, you can only know what the code
does, never what it is supposed to do or why it does it.

This makes fixing problems a lot harder, especially since
people will never agree on what a piece of code is supposed
to do.

regards,

Rik
--
Shortwave goes a long way: irc.starchat.net #swl

http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:14    [W:0.110 / U:1.240 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site