Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/3] ioat: DMA subsystem

From: Ingo Oeser <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 16:00:50 +0100

Hi,

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> explanation of this function would be nice.  remember to answer "how?" 
> and "why?", not "what?".

Wasn't it the other way around?
Citing linux/Documentation/CodingStyle, section 7 "Comments":

"Generally, you want your comments to tell WHAT your code does, not HOW."

HOW and WHY should be obvious by the source code, unless
the sources are a mess.

Regards

Ingo Oeser