From: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] XArray: minor documentation improvements
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 18:16:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ-ks9md9bCrwyCNp3jR=1pF-xpieu8oW4jPqw5w=kCL9bpeBg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875xq19bus.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 5:59 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced that this is better. This is programmer
> documentation, and "storing NULL" says exactly what is going on.
> "Erasing" is, IMO, less clear.
Both are verbs that appear in function names:
"storing NULL" is to `xa_store(NULL)` as "erasing" is to `xa_erase()`.
Cheers.
Tamir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-09 22:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-09 19:36 [PATCH] XArray: minor documentation improvements Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-09 20:44 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-10-09 20:51 ` Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-09 20:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-09 21:25 ` Darrick J. Wong
2024-10-09 21:59 ` Jonathan Corbet
2024-10-09 22:16 ` Tamir Duberstein [this message]
2024-10-09 22:22 ` Randy Dunlap
2024-10-10 14:11 ` Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-10 14:12 ` [PATCH v3] " Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-10 21:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2024-10-10 21:39 ` Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-10 21:41 ` [PATCH v4] " Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-10 21:50 ` Randy Dunlap
2024-10-10 22:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2024-10-16 12:51 ` Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-24 19:52 ` Tamir Duberstein
2024-10-17 0:34 ` Bagas Sanjaya
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