From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0013.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A6E015B1; Sat, 9 Mar 2024 17:14:58 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.13 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1710004499; cv=none; b=fXPPL9Scb0NOMDLmVE6mBkRS/mw0M7jUamLVQhiW/enJJWrGBPP1GHf8o+3pr/aQ2rTjWkTIgBF4mwclde8Gh8FPXdPI8L+XPzEK/ayNEwQlyqoMbXHaVPs5jMjchLw/kBkvESxObpyALvOdLTYikywohlTtO3Dw3QdQhwhfVk8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1710004499; c=relaxed/simple; bh=arDQvDyK7md1Fb8Q4rngcsTKX5H+otUlJid5ZPYEJkw=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=TpgDEDVNpTPzAKeov0rTaFl0++X4E5Zaptvky3VakQLxWiDxuz0tVk/FD1a9HhafgjM+igGQVRKzXEJJjIeCqm8I307++R38zqTMyEV8UKoTPx0seYEh9CezoQHSf9RAAHikCCb6GFHiIaXxsKvwKbHhGYQuMzeLoPz4NNymmOA= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.13 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com Received: from omf08.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A31C120B7C; Sat, 9 Mar 2024 17:14:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id DFCD320027; Sat, 9 Mar 2024 17:14:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/1] net: bridge: switchdev: Improve error message clarity for switchdev_port_obj_add/del_deffered operations From: Joe Perches To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Oleksij Rempel , Jiri Pirko , Ivan Vecera , "David S. Miller" , Andrew Lunn , Eric Dumazet , Florian Fainelli , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Vladimir Oltean , Simon Horman , kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2024 09:14:50 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20240309090931.16d8d58a@hermes.local> References: <20240308104725.2550469-1-o.rempel@pengutronix.de> <4f38500b4d798ad8effd59fef41353439f76fec3.camel@perches.com> <20240309090931.16d8d58a@hermes.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.48.4 (3.48.4-1.fc38) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: DFCD320027 X-Stat-Signature: hqp6zgkq4ewyg6n851mrjr1rxn15533k X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout04 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1+qWDvD5DA3oWCVK+ewd/j4pO/UV1ZSfMY= X-HE-Tag: 1710004491-813056 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX1+y1UweAg9/CqOgeya4f02D/elRycsl7yRGht3OCGiW7fdc9B+uywvbqd+Xgpd2h8UbokKkrVN0PAQhQJYY+8yv6JztEoTPN+RKYDMEyyC/D3wYHBiSHvB+1gaDJ+Rq/UUvpqtRD02fIQld8DmyrYoAcF0kkJYLc+xXB9Mcfq2OKhYQqVjKSIl2LJ3JQbDXiX0iLUt9RTpgoP5nkUgaBaGvGszL4I1xakjKEhE7JB88n0K0ARQ2Uc09wfQnDSooixS+pCs9WXo4xvLl4YcIFuKZY3UFF5JQlCQVlD6zs4xFF9MNa7beBPiD59+qxCsj5o0mCPN8tsBVrhCgMjyEHxIk4/nGzmKEtecPriHz2a9tyZYQ6sPA4DJm On Sat, 2024-03-09 at 09:09 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Sat, 09 Mar 2024 06:26:28 -0800 > Joe Perches wrote: >=20 > > > + problem =3D "Attempted operation is undefined, indicating a " > > > + "possible programming error.\n"; =20 > >=20 > > My preference would be to write > > problem =3D "Attempted operation is undefined indicating a possible p= rogramming error\n"; >=20 > ETOOWORDY. > Be concise please. > problem =3D "Operations is undefined\n"; >=20 Concision is good, plurality matching is too.