Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758145AbXHQWkb (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:40:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752994AbXHQWkO (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:40:14 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:35515 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752062AbXHQWkM (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:40:12 -0400 In-Reply-To: References: <20070809131423.GA9927@shell.boston.redhat.com> <46C2D6F3.3070707@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20070815233721.91032366.billfink@mindspring.com> <4952d3f536060c186f40c277dfc74194@kernel.crashing.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <33a54cfcfda7e50e43a7399780626869@kernel.crashing.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Christoph Lameter , heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, horms@verge.net.au, Stefan Richter , Bill Fink , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Paul E. McKenney" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, cfriesen@nortel.com, rpjday@mindspring.com, jesper.juhl@gmail.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , zlynx@acm.org, davids@webmaster.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, Chris Snook , Herbert Xu , davem@davemloft.net, Linus Torvalds , wensong@linux-vs.org, wjiang@resilience.com From: Segher Boessenkool Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:34:34 +0200 To: Satyam Sharma X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 17 > Now the second wording *IS* technically correct, but come on, it's > 24 words long whereas the original one was 3 -- and hopefully anybody > reading the shorter phrase *would* have known anyway what was meant, > without having to be pedantic about it :-) Well you were talking pretty formal (and detailed) stuff, so IMHO it's good to have that exactly correct. Sure it's nicer to use small words most of the time :-) Segher - 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/