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From: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>
To: Sebastien Dugue <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: dsd@gentoo.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, trivial@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:55:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ED5B3F.7040401@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080328132354.2a3b766e@bull.net>

Sebastien Dugue wrote:
>   Hi Dmitri,
> 
>   one more typo I guess:
> 
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:10:42 +0300 Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> This patch deletes a couple of superfluous word occurrences in the
>> document Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt.
>> ---
>> Sorry for a duplicate email, I forgot to Cc LKML when sending the patch.
>>
>>  Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt |    4 ++--
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt b/Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
>> index 6223eac..ed57b53 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt
>> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ here; a summary of the common scenarios is presented below:
>>     unaligned access to be corrected.
>>   - Some architectures are not capable of unaligned memory access, but will
>>     silently perform a different memory access to the one that was requested,
>> -   resulting a a subtle code bug that is hard to detect!
>> +   resulting a subtle code bug that is hard to detect!
>                 ^
>                in a

Although those English dictionaries that I have consulted do indicate that
"result" is an intransitive verb, there are many occurrences reported by Google
when this verb takes a direct object like in the following phrase: "However,
inner space of the stand 2 of the drum washing machine 1 is not used,
resulting a problem of wasting space."

English is not my mother tongue so I can't claim I have a good ear for the
language. Are there any native speakers who could help, please?

Dmitri

> 
>   Sebastien.
> 
>>  
>>  It should be obvious from the above that if your code causes unaligned
>>  memory accesses to happen, your code will not work correctly on certain
>> @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ memory and you wish to avoid unaligned access, its usage is as follows:
>>  
>>  	u32 value = get_unaligned((u32 *) data);
>>  
>> -These macros work work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
>> +These macros work for memory accesses of any length (not just 32 bits as
>>  in the examples above). Be aware that when compared to standard access of
>>  aligned memory, using these macros to access unaligned memory can be costly in
>>  terms of performance.
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 10:10 [PATCH 1/1] Fix typos in Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-03-28 12:23 ` Sebastien Dugue
2008-03-28 20:55   ` Dmitri Vorobiev [this message]
2008-03-28 20:58     ` Randy Dunlap

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