From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: javaman <javaman@katamail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.x, 2.4.x ...] very small
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:16:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E5642B3.4080104@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030221144448Z267481-29901+571@vger.kernel.org>
javaman wrote:
> A very small patch (my first patch :-) for Documentation/spinlocks.txt:
> it replace "IFF" with "IF" ;-)
>
> bye,
> Paolo
>
> --- Documentation/spinlocks.txt.orig Fri Feb 21 15:02:01 2003
> +++ Documentation/spinlocks.txt Fri Feb 21 15:02:44 2003
> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
>
> If you have a case where you have to protect a data structure across
> several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use
> -cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IFF you know that the spinlocks are
> +cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IF you know that the spinlocks are
> never used in interrupt handlers, you can use the non-irq versions:
>
> spin_lock(&lock);
>
This is wrong. IFF means "If and only if".
--
Brian Gerst
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-21 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-21 14:25 javaman
2003-02-21 15:10 ` Murray J. Root
2003-02-21 15:16 ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2003-02-21 15:30 ` Dave Jones
2003-02-21 17:03 ` Steven Cole
[not found] <200302211454.h1LEsPh31866@neosilicon.transmeta.com>
2003-02-21 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-02-21 17:23 ` Paolo Ornati
2003-02-21 19:31 ` Thomas Molina
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