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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:08:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, javaman wrote:
>
> A very small patch (my first patch :-) for Documentation/spinlocks.txt:
> it replace "IFF" with "IF" ;-)

The IFF is just a way of saying "if and only if". So it's not actually a
typo, it's just that some of the kernel people probably took a few too 
many courses in mathematics and their English-language skills were 
impacted by it.

			Linus

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