linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] m68k: mac: Fix typo in comment

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Date:   Fri, 10 Jun 2022 10:24:12 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Xiang wangx <wangxiang@...rlc.com>
Cc:     Joshua Thompson <funaho@...ai.org>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k: mac: Fix typo in comment

Hi Xiang,

On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 10:22 AM Xiang wangx <wangxiang@...rlc.com> wrote:
> Delete the redundant word 'an'.
> Delete the redundant word 'and'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiang wangx <wangxiang@...rlc.com>

Thanks for your patch!

> --- a/arch/m68k/mac/iop.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/mac/iop.c
> @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
>   *               check this.)
>   * 990605 (jmt) - Rearranged things a bit wrt IOP detection; iop_present is
>   *               gone, IOP base addresses are now in an array and the
> - *               globally-visible functions take an IOP number instead of an
> + *               globally-visible functions take an IOP number instead of

OK

>   *               an actual base address.
>   * 990610 (jmt) - Finished the message passing framework and it seems to work.
>   *               Sending _definitely_ works; my adb-bus.c mods can send
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
>   * a shared memory area in the IOP RAM. Each IOP has seven "channels"; each
>   * channel is connected to a specific software driver on the IOP. For example
>   * on the SCC IOP there is one channel for each serial port. Each channel has
> - * an incoming and and outgoing message queue with a depth of one.
> + * an incoming and outgoing message queue with a depth of one.

The second "and" should not be deleted, but replaced by "an".

>   *
>   * A message is 32 bytes plus a state byte for the channel (MSG_IDLE, MSG_NEW,
>   * MSG_RCVD, MSG_COMPLETE). To send a message you copy the message into the

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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