From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:53:20 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090112.215320.197154233.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231724358.2674.13.camel@hashbaz.i.decadent.org.uk>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:39:18 +0000
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 09:05 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> > > @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct inet_bind_bucket;
> > > struct inet_timewait_sock {
> > > /*
> > > * Now struct sock also uses sock_common, so please just
> > > - * don't add nothing before this first member (__tw_common) --acme
> > > + * don't add anything before this first member (__tw_common) --acme
> >
> > They are the same meaning...
>
> A double-negative can be an informal way of reinforcing a negative, but
> can sometimes mean the positive. So this change would remove a minor
> ambiguity. However I think it should be clear that it is not compulsory
> to add new members to the structure. ;-)
After all of this discussion, I think I'm going to keep this comment
as-is. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-13 5:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 18:36 [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments Qinghuang Feng
2009-01-12 1:05 ` Li Zefan
2009-01-12 1:39 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-13 5:53 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-01-13 6:16 ` Daolong Wang
2009-01-13 8:41 ` David Newall
2009-01-13 9:04 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-13 12:09 ` David Newall
2009-01-13 23:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-01-13 23:30 ` Randy Dunlap
[not found] ` <6b1ba94c0901122336r511fa316o5f520a8d2d9d6e0@mail.gmail.com>
2009-01-13 7:44 ` David Miller
2009-01-13 7:56 ` Li Zefan
2009-01-13 7:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-01-13 8:52 ` Oliver Hartkopp
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