linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v5 10/22] Remove get_xip

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Message-ID: <20140127132644.GB20939@parisc-linux.org>
Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2014 06:26:45 -0700
From:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/22] Remove get_xip_mem

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 05:46:28PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > +In order to support this method, the storage must be byte-accessable by
> 
>                                                         byte-accessible

Thanks.  Fixed.

> > +- ensuring that there is sufficient locking between reads, writes,
> > +  truncates and page faults
> 
>      truncates, and
> but that's up to you and your editor/proofreader etc.  :)

Ooh, do we really get to have a discussion about the Oxford Comma on
linux-kernel?  :-)

I haven't actually run this material past my editor (who is my wife, so
I need really convincing arguments to do it your way instead of hers),
but funnily we had a conversation about the Oxford Comma while on holiday
last week.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma has a reasonably
exhaustive discourse on the subject, and I learned that she's probably
primarily against it because of her journalism degree.

> > +Even if the kernel or its modules are stored on an filesystem that supports
> 
>                                                    a

Good catch.  I think I started out with 'an fs', then expanded it to
"an filesystem" which of course is nonsense.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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