linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix repeated words in comments

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Date:   Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:46:31 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     wangjianli <wangjianli@...rlc.com>
Cc:     mpe@...erman.id.au, benh@...nel.crashing.org, paulus@...ba.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/mm: fix repeated words in comments

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 02:36:22PM +0800, wangjianli wrote:
>  Delete the redundant word 'so'.

>  	/* It would be nice if this was a BUILD_BUG_ON(), but at the
>  	 * moment, gcc doesn't seem to recognize is_power_of_2 as a
> -	 * constant expression, so so much for that. */
> +	 * constant expression, so much for that. */

It is not redundant here.  The first "so" means "therefore", and the
second "so" means "to such a great extent".


Segher