Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758312AbZAMGRc (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:17:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760145AbZAMGQG (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:16:06 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.227]:61996 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759908AbZAMGQE (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:16:04 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HiwBKhiCh+yO5uA1cScFIo7dFqjEndtwxkrtj5OJXqly5i2LzlsAh6u1CFTR6lMIwH oqOQHtXPsvD5bQARWFvLo/LegT4QEFjfYYLLuE47b/8C/FUnhzvCiDly2TLgJ6RiSH47 7tk28rHcwgcyrC4vS20QWr3ljYcl29QWb01UI= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090112.215320.197154233.davem@davemloft.net> References: <496a3c51.09876e0a.03fe.7e80@mx.google.com> <496A9753.80802@cn.fujitsu.com> <1231724358.2674.13.camel@hashbaz.i.decadent.org.uk> <20090112.215320.197154233.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:16:02 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments From: Daolong Wang To: David Miller Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, qhfeng.kernel@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1543 Lines: 36 The patch will make sense for some people. I was puzzled about the double-negative for quite a while. On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Ben Hutchings > Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:39:18 +0000 > >> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 09:05 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: >> > > @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct inet_bind_bucket; >> > > struct inet_timewait_sock { >> > > /* >> > > * Now struct sock also uses sock_common, so please just >> > > - * don't add nothing before this first member (__tw_common) --acme >> > > + * don't add anything before this first member (__tw_common) --acme >> > >> > They are the same meaning... >> >> A double-negative can be an informal way of reinforcing a negative, but >> can sometimes mean the positive. So this change would remove a minor >> ambiguity. However I think it should be clear that it is not compulsory >> to add new members to the structure. ;-) > > After all of this discussion, I think I'm going to keep this comment > as-is. :-) > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/