Re: [PATCH] cgroup: Fix typo in comments and documents

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 08:51:29AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@baidu.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Fix typo: iff  ==> if
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Cai Huoqing <caihuoqing@baidu.com>
>> 
>> This is becoming an FAQ ...  "iff" in mathematical English means "if and
>> only if"; its usage in these documents is correct.
>
> ... and yet it's clearly not understood.  Similarly to the [start..end)
> convention (also the [start..end[ convention).  Should we deprecate
> use of it in kernel documentation, and if so, what should we replace it
> with?

I'm never quite sure what to do with these things...we want to be
inclusive, but we don't want to hobble the language we use beyond a
certain point.  We could ask people to spell out "if and only if", I
suppose, but that sounds like the kind of thing that leads to unpleasant
messages in my inbox.

Thanks,

jon