From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] md/raid5: fix typo
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:22:40 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150430072240.GA3858@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150430171426.46d03aa1@notabene.brown>
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:14:26PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2015 15:01:16 +0800 Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> wrote:
>
> > bion -> bios
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/md/raid5.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> > index 697d77a..2651bda 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> > @@ -2919,7 +2919,7 @@ schedule_reconstruction(struct stripe_head *sh, struct stripe_head_state *s,
> > }
> >
> > /*
> > - * Each stripe/dev can have one or more bion attached.
> > + * Each stripe/dev can have one or more bios attached.
> > * toread/towrite point to the first in a chain.
> > * The bi_next chain must be in order.
> > */
>
> That was intentional. "bios" as a plural looks too much like "BIOS" which is
> in the ROM of computers.
>
> Children and oxen are plurals with an 'n' at the end. So I used 'bion'.
> Private joke?
Interesting.
>
> I'd rather leave it as it is.
Okay, and sorry for the noise.
--yliu
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-30 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-30 7:01 [PATCH 1/2] md/raid5: fix typo Yuanhan Liu
2015-04-30 7:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] md/raid5: trivial coding style fix Yuanhan Liu
2015-04-30 7:16 ` NeilBrown
2015-04-30 7:23 ` Yuanhan Liu
2015-04-30 7:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] md/raid5: fix typo NeilBrown
2015-04-30 7:22 ` Yuanhan Liu [this message]
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