On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 22:03 +0100, Markus Grabner wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 14. November 2012, 17:33:05 schrieb Dan Carpenter: > > The reason this is hitting the 80 character limit is because > > "LINE6_INDEX_PCM_ALSA_CAPTURE_STREAM" is 35 characters long. It > > isn't even clear from the name what it holds. It's just a very crap > > name. > Please refer to the file pcm.h for a detailed documentation of this and > similar names (in fact, the documentation explains the LINE6_BIT_PCM_* names > instead, but I bevlieve the correspondence is obvious). It's hard to define a > shorter name which is at the same time descriptive, consistent, and not to be > confused with related names. > > Should such documentation be moved to a separate file (e.g., > "Documentation/sound/alsa/line6usb.txt")?
Documenting poor naming choices doesn't make it better. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
