Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756948Ab3HGGaO (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Aug 2013 02:30:14 -0400 Received: from intranet.asianux.com ([58.214.24.6]:61143 "EHLO intranet.asianux.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751975Ab3HGGaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Aug 2013 02:30:13 -0400 X-Spam-Score: -100.8 Message-ID: <5201E937.4010107@asianux.com> Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:29:11 +0800 From: Chen Gang User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130110 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Perches CC: Li Zefan , "Eric W. Biederman" , Al Viro , xi.wang@gmail.com, nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, Andrew Morton , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel/sysctl_binary.c: improve the usage of return value 'result' References: <5200A5E6.9020803@asianux.com> <8761vibihw.fsf@xmission.com> <5201D62B.6080905@asianux.com> <5201E192.7060108@huawei.com> <1375855849.2424.82.camel@joe-AO722> In-Reply-To: <1375855849.2424.82.camel@joe-AO722> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1501 Lines: 50 On 08/07/2013 02:10 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 13:56 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: >>>> The right answer to the code is to config it out and then you don't have >>>> to worry about it one way or another. > [] >>> Hmm... do you mean you spend 5 minutes to get a conclusion ? if so, >>> better not use word 'seems' which is not a suitable word appeared in >>> the results, proofs or conclusions. > [] >> You are too bad in english to do kernel development. You don't seem to >> know how to communicate in english... > > I don't think that's true. > > For instance, pessimization is a pretty > obscure word. Most native English speakers > could probably guess what it meant, but I > couldn't hold any low opinion of non-native > speaker that asked "what does that mean". > > The code communicates just fine. > > Chen Gang could be a bit more careful when > making significant changes to core kernel > facilities. > OK, thanks, I really should be more careful for making patches. > (said the guy that broke just printk) > > I think the fluent English speakers can be > tolerant reasonably well when the code is > correct and compelling (and correct). > > cheers, Joe > > > Thank you very much for your understanding. -- Chen Gang -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/