From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: wangjianli <wangjianli@cdjrlc.com>
Cc: paulus@samba.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix repeated words in comments
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:46:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220725014631.GS25951@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220724063622.3205-1-wangjianli@cdjrlc.com>
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 02:36:22PM +0800, wangjianli wrote:
> Delete the redundant word 'so'.
> /* It would be nice if this was a BUILD_BUG_ON(), but at the
> * moment, gcc doesn't seem to recognize is_power_of_2 as a
> - * constant expression, so so much for that. */
> + * constant expression, so much for that. */
It is not redundant here. The first "so" means "therefore", and the
second "so" means "to such a great extent".
Segher
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: wangjianli <wangjianli@cdjrlc.com>
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix repeated words in comments
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:46:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220725014631.GS25951@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220724063622.3205-1-wangjianli@cdjrlc.com>
On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 02:36:22PM +0800, wangjianli wrote:
> Delete the redundant word 'so'.
> /* It would be nice if this was a BUILD_BUG_ON(), but at the
> * moment, gcc doesn't seem to recognize is_power_of_2 as a
> - * constant expression, so so much for that. */
> + * constant expression, so much for that. */
It is not redundant here. The first "so" means "therefore", and the
second "so" means "to such a great extent".
Segher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-25 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-24 6:36 [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix repeated words in comments wangjianli
2022-07-24 6:36 ` wangjianli
2022-07-25 1:46 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2022-07-25 1:46 ` Segher Boessenkool
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