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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:56:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55C2CCFA.1030803@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150806125435.694d9ee3@noble>

On 08/05/15 19:54, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:41:52 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/24/15 17:28, NeilBrown wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> Some edits for you to consider.
> 
> Wow, thanks.  I think I agree with all ... had to do some research for
> "neither is" though.
> 
>>
>>> +However, there is a little bit more to seqlocks than that.  If
>>> +RCU-walk accesses two different fields in a seqlock-protected
>>> +structure, or accesses the same field twice, there is no a-priori
>>
>>                                              no hyphen:      ^
> 
> Do you have an opinion on where I should but "a priori" in italics?
> I feel there needs to be something to make it clear the "a" is not an
> English "a".

I don't think that italics are needed for that.

> Jon: do you want an incremental patch, or a resend?


-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-06  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-25  0:28 [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup NeilBrown
2015-07-27  3:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2015-08-06  2:54   ` NeilBrown
2015-08-06  2:56     ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2015-08-06 10:01     ` Jonathan Corbet
2015-10-26  6:35       ` [PATCHv2] " Neil Brown
2015-10-27 21:21         ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-10-27 23:12           ` Neil Brown
2015-11-03  1:19         ` Jonathan Corbet

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