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Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2023 04:48:34 +0000
From:   Wilken Gottwalt <wilken.gottwalt@posteo.net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: kstrtox: fix typo in comment
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 08:26:03 -0800
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:

> On 11/28/23 00:27, Wilken Gottwalt wrote:
> > Delete one of the double f's in "iff".
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wilken Gottwalt <wilken.gottwalt@posteo.net>
> 
> Nope, see:
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if

Oh, interesting. Never thought of this. Though, now I wonder: How often do such
"fixes" happen?

> > ---
> >  lib/kstrtox.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/lib/kstrtox.c b/lib/kstrtox.c
> > index d586e6af5e5a..b0a9fdce15b3 100644
> > --- a/lib/kstrtox.c
> > +++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
> > @@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtos8);
> >   * @s: input string
> >   * @res: result
> >   *
> > - * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'YyTt1NnFf0', or
> > + * This routine returns 0 if the first character is one of 'YyTt1NnFf0', or
> >   * [oO][NnFf] for "on" and "off". Otherwise it will return -EINVAL.  Value
> >   * pointed to by res is updated upon finding a match.
> >   */
>