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From: Don Koch <dkoch@cloudswitch.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	qemu-trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
	Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Don Koch <dkoch@verizon.com>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] misc: Spelling and grammar fixes in comments
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:28:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52585F8B.6080604@cloudswitch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA8QMiNuBMN0=DmXA8RqV9iVdoD-weGF04njKCGw1nbbyg@mail.gmail.com>

On 10/11/2013 04:10 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 12 October 2013 05:03, Don Koch <dkoch@verizon.com> wrote:
>> On 10/11/2013 03:34 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>>> * it's -> its
>>> * grammar fix in ui/vnc-enc-zywrle.h
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> This is v3 of http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/257416/.
>>>
>>> v3:
>>> Don't try to improve a strange sentence in the same context ("Of cause [...]").
> 
>>>   In this method, H/L and X0/X1 is always same position.
>>> - This lead us to more speed and less memory.
>>> + This leads us to more speed and less memory.
>>>   Of cause, the result of both method is quite same
>>>   because it's only difference that coefficient position.
>>>  */
>>>
>>
>> Since you're in the neighborhood, this paragraph needs more fixes:
> 
> No, see the note above and the previous discussion.

In that case, there in no point in fixing just the lead/leads typo.

>>  In this method, H/L and X0/X1 is always in the same position.
>>  This leads us to more speed and less memory.
>>  Of course, the result of both methods is the same
>>  because the only difference is the coefficient position.
> 
> Unless you want to say you've reviewed the code and
> are completely confident that the original author meant
> "the same" or "exactly the same" and not "quite similar"
> then we need to leave the original wording alone.
> 
> -- PMM
> 

-d

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-11 20:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-11 19:34 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] misc: Spelling and grammar fixes in comments Stefan Weil
2013-10-11 20:03 ` Don Koch
2013-10-11 20:08   ` Stefan Weil
2013-10-11 20:51     ` Don Koch
2013-10-11 20:09   ` Eric Blake
2013-10-11 20:10   ` Peter Maydell
2013-10-11 20:28     ` Don Koch [this message]
2013-10-21  8:46       ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Michael Tokarev
2013-10-23  5:37         ` Stefan Weil
2013-10-11 20:11 ` [Qemu-devel] " Peter Maydell
2013-10-26  9:08 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Michael Tokarev

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