From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:44:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090112.234441.131571840.davem@davemloft.net> References: <496a3c51.09876e0a.03fe.7e80@mx.google.com> <496A9753.80802@cn.fujitsu.com> <6b1ba94c0901122336r511fa316o5f520a8d2d9d6e0@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: joe.tian.kernel@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:43296 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753904AbZAMHok (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:44:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: <6b1ba94c0901122336r511fa316o5f520a8d2d9d6e0@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: joe tian Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:36:51 +0800 > 2009/1/12 Li Zefan : > >> @@ -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... > > > I don't think they are the same meaning. > I think "don't add anything" means "do add nothing" but not means "don't add > nothing" No offense to anyone, but the only people arguing for "correctness" seem to be non-native speakers of English. Is this correct? :-) As Ben tries to explain, "don't add nothing" is a colloquialism of English that in fact can mean "do not add" It sounds amusing when read, and I'm not killing the character and personality of this comment just for some language lawyering. No way.