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From: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: <tglx@linutronix.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	<linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hrtimers: doc cleanup
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:25:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5718AAA5.1080305@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160421035606.619dee77@lwn.net>

Hi jon
     Thanks for your quick respond for my 1st patch here.

On 04/21/2016 05:56 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2016 17:09:54 +0800
> Cao jin <caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>
>> -  wheel concept, it cannot be 'designed out' without unevitably
>> -  degrading other portions of the timers.c code in an unacceptable way.
>> +  wheel concept, it cannot be 'designed out' without inevitably
>> +  degrading other portions of the timers.c code in an acceptable way.
>
> This change is incorrect - "unacceptable" is exactly what the writer
> wanted to say here.
>
*it cannot be 'designed out' without inevitably degrading other portions 
of the timers.c code in an unacceptable way*

equals

*it can be 'designed out' ... in an acceptable way*, I think.

So, just from semantics, my feeling is, *it cannot be 'designed out' in 
an acceptable way* is the reason why integration is hard. Am I still wrong?

-- 
Yours Sincerely,

Cao jin

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-21 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21  9:09 [PATCH] hrtimers: doc cleanup Cao jin
2016-04-21  9:56 ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-04-21 10:25   ` Cao jin [this message]
2016-04-21 13:23     ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-04-21 13:36       ` Cao jin

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