From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1TaNw2-0003Cc-CZ for barebox@lists.infradead.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:46:35 +0000 Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:46:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" In-Reply-To: <20121119094101.GK10369@pengutronix.de> Message-ID: References: <20121118162637.GF8327@game.jcrosoft.org> <20121119094101.GK10369@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: barebox-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: barebox-bounces+u.kleine-koenig=pengutronix.de@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: is there a standard for putting the name of a source file in the file? To: Sascha Hauer Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Sascha Hauer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:39:48AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Nov 2012, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > > > > > On 08:48 Sun 18 Nov , Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > > as i'm working my way thru the lib/ routines in barebox, i notice > > > > that some source files there, like getopt.c, conveniently have the > > > > filename right at the top: > > > > > > > > /* > > > > * getopt.c - a simple getopt(3) implementation. See getopt.h for explanation. > > > > ... > > > > > > > > i really like this habit as it makes it easy to send a file to the > > > > printer and not forget what the file was. > > > > > > > > however, most of the files in lib/ don't have that. as i work my > > > > way through the files, i'd be happy to add something like that to each > > > > file, and submit the changes all as one patch. is there a standard? > > > > from what i can see, there's quite the variety in how people add that > > > > to a source file. > > > > > > > > i'm open to guidance and i can take it from there. > > > no this is a pain in the ass to maintian when we move file > > > > > > I' drop it and I'm against it > > > > ok, that logic makes sense, i'm good with that. > > Me aswell. Tools like a2ps also print the filename ;) yes, i agree, it was a silly idea, i only brought it up since some of the files under lib/ were doing that and some weren't and i didn't know if there was a standard of some kind. movin' on ... rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox