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Message-ID: <55C2CCFA.1030803@infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 05 Aug 2015 19:56:58 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
CC:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.

On 08/05/15 19:54, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:41:52 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/24/15 17:28, NeilBrown wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Hi Neil,
>>
>> Some edits for you to consider.
> 
> Wow, thanks.  I think I agree with all ... had to do some research for
> "neither is" though.
> 
>>
>>> +However, there is a little bit more to seqlocks than that.  If
>>> +RCU-walk accesses two different fields in a seqlock-protected
>>> +structure, or accesses the same field twice, there is no a-priori
>>
>>                                              no hyphen:      ^
> 
> Do you have an opinion on where I should but "a priori" in italics?
> I feel there needs to be something to make it clear the "a" is not an
> English "a".

I don't think that italics are needed for that.

> Jon: do you want an incremental patch, or a resend?


-- 
~Randy
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