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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/14] nfsd4: remove redundant "if" in nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:49:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090311194943.GI13540@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B7FD6B.5060203@panasas.com>

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 08:05:31PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
> On Mar. 11, 2009, 3:26 +0200, Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:12:46AM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote:
> >>> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >>>> From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
> >>>>
> >>>> Note that we exit this first big "if" with stp == NULL iff we took the
> >>>                                                                                         ^^ typo
> >> The "iff"?  That's short for "if and only if".  I can try to get out of
> >> the "iff" habit if it's too obscure.
> > 
> > Sorry for mis-understanding,My pool englishT_T Maybe "if and only if"
> > are more understandable.
> 
> Although using this iffy math/cs school lingo does not seem too obscure
> to me (one can find it easily on the net, e.g.
> http://www.tfd.com/?Word=iff), as a non-native English speaker I'd be
> inclined to simplify commentary language as much as possible and
> refrain from using acronyms if they are not obvious to the linux
> developers community.

OK.--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-11 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-11  0:26 miscellaneous nfsd4 state changes J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26 ` [PATCH 01/14] nfsd4: trivial preprocess_stateid_op cleanup J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26   ` [PATCH 02/14] nfsd4: move check_stateid_generation check J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26     ` [PATCH 03/14] nfsd4: remove redundant "if" in nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26       ` [PATCH 04/14] nfsd4: remove unneeded local variable J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26         ` [PATCH 05/14] nfsd4: remove some dprintk's J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26           ` [PATCH 06/14] nfsd4: add a helper function to decide if stateid is delegation J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26             ` [PATCH 07/14] nfsd4: separate delegreturn case from preprocess_stateid_op J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26               ` [PATCH 08/14] nfsd4: fail when delegreturn gets a non-delegation stateid J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26                 ` [PATCH 09/14] nfsd4: remove unused CHECK_FH flag J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26                   ` [PATCH 10/14] nfsd4: rename io_during_grace_disallowed J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:26                     ` [PATCH 11/14] nfsd4: put_nfs4_client does not require state lock J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:27                       ` [PATCH 12/14] nfsd4: remove use of mutex for file_hashtable J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:27                         ` [PATCH 13/14] nfsd4: fix do_probe_callback errors J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  0:27                           ` [PATCH 14/14] nfsd4: move rpc_client setup to a separate function J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-12 10:59                             ` Benny Halevy
2009-03-12 10:55                           ` [PATCH 13/14] nfsd4: fix do_probe_callback errors Benny Halevy
2009-03-12 21:41                             ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11 18:52                         ` [PATCH 12/14] nfsd4: remove use of mutex for file_hashtable Benny Halevy
2009-03-12  0:05                           ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-12 10:49                             ` Benny Halevy
2009-03-13 17:18                               ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-18 20:28                                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-18 20:40                                   ` Benny Halevy
2009-03-18 21:03                                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-18 21:07                                       ` Benny Halevy
2009-03-11  1:52                 ` [PATCH 08/14] nfsd4: fail when delegreturn gets a non-delegation stateid Yang Hongyang
2009-03-11 20:07                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11 18:29                 ` Benny Halevy
2009-03-12  0:03                   ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  1:47               ` [PATCH 07/14] nfsd4: separate delegreturn case from preprocess_stateid_op Yang Hongyang
2009-03-11 19:51                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  1:12       ` [PATCH 03/14] nfsd4: remove redundant "if" in nfs4_preprocess_stateid_op Yang Hongyang
2009-03-11  1:23         ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-03-11  1:26           ` Yang Hongyang
2009-03-11 18:05             ` Benny Halevy
2009-03-11 19:49               ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2009-03-11  2:09   ` [PATCH 01/14] nfsd4: trivial preprocess_stateid_op cleanup Yang Hongyang

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