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Message-ID: <a0b2a088-4887-e864-d211-bed0665a0b81@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 20:35:18 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, keescook@...omium.org,
mawilcox@...rosoft.com, kstewart@...uxfoundation.org,
aryabinin@...tuozzo.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/string.c: fix a typo in comment: 'iff' -->'if'
On 06/28/2018 08:33 PM, YueHaibing wrote:
> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
> ---
> lib/string.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Hi,
This isn't a typo. "iff" means "if and only if".
> diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
> index 2c0900a..23ed944 100644
> --- a/lib/string.c
> +++ b/lib/string.c
> @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strsep);
> * @s1: one string
> * @s2: another string
> *
> - * This routine returns true iff two strings are equal, treating both
> + * This routine returns true if two strings are equal, treating both
> * NUL and newline-then-NUL as equivalent string terminations. It's
> * geared for use with sysfs input strings, which generally terminate
> * with newlines but are compared against values without newlines.
>
--
~Randy
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