linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] XArray: minor documentation improvements

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Message-ID: <CAJ-ks9md9bCrwyCNp3jR=1pF-xpieu8oW4jPqw5w=kCL9bpeBg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 18:16:29 -0400
From: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@...il.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] XArray: minor documentation improvements

On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 5:59 PM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
>
> I'm not convinced that this is better.  This is programmer
> documentation, and "storing NULL" says exactly what is going on.
> "Erasing" is, IMO, less clear.

Both are verbs that appear in function names:
"storing NULL" is to `xa_store(NULL)` as "erasing" is to `xa_erase()`.

Cheers.
Tamir