From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932914Ab0JXSJO (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:09:14 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:51134 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756752Ab0JXSJN (ORCPT ); Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:09:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:08:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Kyle Moffett cc: Serafeim Zanikolas , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] time: jiffies.c: fix typos in comment In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1287849986-5936-1-git-send-email-sez@debian.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Kyle Moffett wrote: > Thomas, > > Please reread the patch again, I think it does exactly what he said it > did. Specifically, the old text is: > >> * the timer interrupt frequency HZ and it suffers > >> * inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer > >> * interrupts and the inability for the timer > >> * interrupt hardware to accuratly tick at the > >> * requested HZ value. It is also not reccomended > >> * for "tick-less" systems. > > While the new text is: > >> * the timer interrupt frequency HZ and it suffers > >> * inaccuracies caused by missed or lost timer > >> * interrupts and the inability for the timer > >> * interrupt hardware to accurately tick at the > >> * requested HZ value. It is also not recommended > >> * for "tick-less" systems. > > I misread it the first time myself, mentally combining the second line > of the old text with the new text; what you probably saw was: > > >> - * requested HZ value. It is also not reccomended > >> + * interrupt hardware to accurately tick at the > >> + * requested HZ value. Crap yes. I read it twice and still failed to parse it correctly. Thanks, tglx