From: Paolo Ornati <javaman@katamail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.x, 2.4.x ...] very small
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 18:23:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030221171255Z267582-29901+637@vger.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302210707120.7573-100000@home.transmeta.com>
On Friday 21 February 2003 16:08, you wrote:
> 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
... sorry, I'm Italian and my English isn't very well ;-)
next time I'll look at http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=XX
BYE,
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200302211454.h1LEsPh31866@neosilicon.transmeta.com>
2003-02-21 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-21 17:23 ` Paolo Ornati [this message]
2003-02-21 19:31 ` Thomas Molina
2003-02-21 14:25 javaman
2003-02-21 15:10 ` Murray J. Root
2003-02-21 15:16 ` Brian Gerst
2003-02-21 15:30 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-21 17:03 ` Steven Cole
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