From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'YueHaibing' <yuehaibing@huawei.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"keescook@chromium.org" <keescook@chromium.org>,
"mawilcox@microsoft.com" <mawilcox@microsoft.com>,
"kstewart@linuxfoundation.org" <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>,
"aryabinin@virtuozzo.com" <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>,
"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] lib/string.c: fix a typo in comment: 'iff' -->'if'
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:30:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6d223fd7e9b74075be886b21189d8b50@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22bb151b-d651-597b-21b6-0e6346ac32c9@huawei.com>
From: YueHaibing
> Sent: 29 June 2018 04:45
>
> On 2018/6/29 11:35, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 06/28/2018 08:33 PM, YueHaibing wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
> >> ---
> >> lib/string.c | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This isn't a typo. "iff" means "if and only if".
>
> ok, my poor english, thank you.
It's not really english, but a shorthand used by mathematicians.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-29 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-29 3:33 YueHaibing
2018-06-29 3:35 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-06-29 3:44 ` YueHaibing
2018-06-29 15:30 ` David Laight [this message]
2018-06-29 20:25 ` Andy Shevchenko
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