From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Mahmoud Abumandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>, Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
bpf@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/bpf: Fix most/least significant bit typos
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:12:45 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d8nnv2a.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c40b0d55-e3c9-2027-765b-a4868ae16795@iogearbox.net>
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> writes:
> On 3/19/22 5:43 PM, Mahmoud Abumandour wrote:
>> The LSB and MSB acronyms should not be followed by the word "bits". This
>> fixes this issue and uses the full phrases "most/least significant bits"
>> for better readibility.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Abumandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
>
> What "issue" is being fixed here? Why would you not use the acronyms? It's fine
> as-is, not applying it.
I *think* that the nit being picked here is that the word "bits" after
an acronym like MSB is redundant...
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-21 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-19 16:43 [PATCH] docs/bpf: Fix most/least significant bit typos Mahmoud Abumandour
2022-03-21 15:19 ` Daniel Borkmann
2022-03-21 16:12 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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