netdev - Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:53:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	lizf@...fujitsu.com, qhfeng.kernel@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
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. :-)

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