Re: dead comments

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 02:06:50 EST


On Mon, 7 Feb 100, Rick Hohensee wrote:

Rick, time to update your y2k-noncompliant ELM. Your message
shows that it is Feb in the year 100, instead of 2000.

>Date: Mon, 7 Feb 100 21:48:51 -0500 (EST)
>From: Rick Hohensee <humbubba@smarty.smart.net>
>To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
>Subject: dead comments
>
>
>In arch/i386/kernel/process.c is the following...
>
>/*
> * This routine reboots the machine by asking the keyboard
> * controller to pulse the reset-line low. We try that for a while,
> * and if it doesn't work, we do some other stupid things.
> */
>
>
>Which, although it has that Torvaldian charm (whether by LT or not),
>seems to be completely obsolete, and quite misleading. I think.
>
>Also, in the Documentation/kernel-docs.txt file in 2.3...
>
> + Title: "Network Buffers And Memory Management"
> Author: Alan Cox.
> URL: http://www.ssc.com/lj/issue30/kk30.html
>
>and the URL for Wilcox's ext2 doc were inaccesible by me, of the 5 or 6
>URLs in there I tried.
>
>And DAMN that kernel cross-reference site in .no is awesome. Almost
>validates the web.
>
>
>Rick Hohensee
>Have you hugged your init today?
>
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