From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751855AbcDUKW6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2016 06:22:58 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([59.151.112.132]:18487 "EHLO heian.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751543AbcDUKW4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2016 06:22:56 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.22,518,1449504000"; d="scan'208";a="5822256" Subject: Re: [PATCH] hrtimers: doc cleanup To: Jonathan Corbet References: <1461229794-3654-1-git-send-email-caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> <20160421035606.619dee77@lwn.net> CC: , , From: Cao jin Message-ID: <5718AAA5.1080305@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:25:41 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160421035606.619dee77@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [10.167.226.69] X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: 7B87542B55E3.A41EB X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-yoursite-MailScanner-From: caoj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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