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From: "Josh Boyer" <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Jesse Off <joff@embeddedarm.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC] ts72xx NAND driver
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 06:56:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <625fc13d0603030456m73ef0b5ew205bdb2070e57c8f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060303104955.GA13523@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>

On 3/3/06, Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 March 2006 09:53:41 +0300, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> >
> > > +   /* Return happy */
> > > +   return 0;
> > This is very informative comment :-)
>
> And it should definitely be changed to "happily". ;)

It doesn't have to be.  "happily" would be modifying the action, in
this case returning.  That is the equivalent of saying "I'll happily
return to you".  "Return happy" would be the equivalent of saying "I
return to you in a good mood".

Doesn't english suck?

josh

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-03 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-02 13:12 [PATCH,RFC] ts72xx NAND driver Lennert Buytenhek
2006-03-02 13:54 ` Jörn Engel
2006-03-02 17:15   ` Lennert Buytenhek
2006-03-02 17:32     ` Jörn Engel
2006-03-02 18:19       ` Lennert Buytenhek
2006-03-03  6:53         ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2006-03-03 10:49           ` Jörn Engel
2006-03-03 12:56             ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2006-03-03 13:10               ` Jörn Engel

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