Re: [PATCH 2.5.x, 2.4.x ...] very small

[Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>]

javaman wrote:
> A very small patch (my first patch :-) for Documentation/spinlocks.txt:
> it replace "IFF" with "IF" ;-)
> 
> bye,
> Paolo
> 
> --- Documentation/spinlocks.txt.orig	Fri Feb 21 15:02:01 2003
> +++ Documentation/spinlocks.txt	Fri Feb 21 15:02:44 2003
> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
>  
>  If you have a case where you have to protect a data structure across
>  several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use
> -cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IFF you know that the spinlocks are
> +cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IF you know that the spinlocks are
>  never used in interrupt handlers, you can use the non-irq versions:
>  
>  	spin_lock(&lock);
> 

This is wrong.  IFF means "If and only if".

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				Brian Gerst