> > > It's an accident of history. The correct style is in $SRC/prototypes/. > > > > Who determined that was correct? > > It's a legal thing. See CR 6289464 and/or jbeck.
Wow, that's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. If someone wants to go separate back out the merged comment blocks they can be my guest. I'm unwilling to spend any more time on something so utterly pointless. > In this case, we're talking about an additional 5 bytes (2F 0A 0A 2F > 2A) per file, which theoretically makes a 1GB gate with 51348 files in > it a mere 256KB bigger. It's not worth bothering about. It wasn't the 5 bytes that bothered me, it was the extra 2-3 lines. > If we're going to complain about obtuse legal requirements, it's far, > far more offensive to me personally that we lard every file with the > full CDDL text. I think that's completely unnecessary, and could have > been done with a single-line reference to the license instead. But I > lost that battle long ago. Indeed. But at least that could be argued to have some legal purpose. It would be impossible to argue that our copyright/license is in any jeopardy because it exists in one comment instead of two, especially when many other files (e.g. Makefiles) have them merged. -- meem
