[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/3] image: move all function comments to header file

[Stephen Warren]

On 08/15/2014 04:11 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:10 PM, York Sun <yorksun at freescale.com> wrote:
>> On 08/15/2014 03:07 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jeroen Hofstee <dasuboot at myspectrum.nl> wrote:
>>>> Hello Bryan,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 15-08-14 22:55, Bryan Wu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Several functions comments are C file with function definition, they
>>>>> should be moved to header file with function declaration.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also update genimg_get_kernel_addr() comments for CONFIG_FIT case.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <pengw at nvidia.com>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why _should_ this be done. In general I would not do it
>>>> to keep comment and implementation close to each other.
>>>> (In the hope they actually match). Doxygen and likely the
>>>> kernel doc thing can pick this up. The only reason I can
>>>> think of this being useful is for proprietary code with a public
>>>> api, but this is not applicable for u-boot.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I was asked to do that by Simon and right now in image.c and image.h
>>> it's quite mix.
>>> Some of them are in C code with implementation others are in header
>>> file with declaration.
>>>
>>> I was confused by this in u-boot, although in kernel we put comments
>>> in C code with implementation.
>>>
>>
>> I prefer to see comments near the implementations.
>>
>
> Then we need another patch to move those comments from header file to C file.

Well, I wouldn't do anything just yet. Simon and York need to sort out 
an agreement first, so we don't just keep writing patches that move 
stuff back and forth.