linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip/master] x86: nmi_watchdog

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:56:08 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...tel.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip/master] x86: nmi_watchdog - documentation fix

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:51:25 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:

> [Chris Friesen - Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:32:12AM -0600]
> > Alan Cox wrote:
> >> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:54:19 +0100 (BST)
> >> "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> +NOTE: Prior to 2.4.2-ac18 the NMI-oopser is enabled unconditionally
> >>>> +on x86 SMP boxes.
> >>>
> >>> While you are at it: s/is/was/.
> >> Erm - why ??
> >> It is still true today that kernels < 2.4.2-ac8 have the NMI oopser
> >> enabled.
> >
> > To my ear the phrase as written implies past tense for the author/reader 
> > (i.e. "at points in time prior to the release of 2.4.2-ac18"), and thus 
> > grates against "is".
> >
> > The following sounds better to me: "In kernels prior to 2.4.2-ac18 the 
> > NMI-oopser is enabled..."  In this context the phrase itself is in the 
> > present, but we point to past kernels.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> 
> And the winner is? I'm not native English speaker so I can't select
> a better candidate in {is,was} limited set.

Use the text that Chris suggested...


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