linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-elektor: Allow building on SMP kernels

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2511242045320.36486@angie.orcam.me.uk>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:49:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...am.me.uk>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
cc: Magnus Lindholm <linmag7@...il.com>, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, 
    linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, 
    andi.shyti@...nel.org, wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i2c: i2c-elektor: Allow building on SMP kernels

On Sat, 22 Nov 2025, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> > there has since been some fixes/cleanup work to get rid of cli/sti and
> 
> s/has/have/

 An ambiguity here comes from the mixture of plural and uncountable for 
"fixes" vs "... work".

> > rely on spinlocks instead (as pointed out by Wolfram Sang). Tested this
> 
> The sentence just ends after "instead". I think you meant to say "instead,
> let's allow building the driver on SMP kernels again." or something like
> that.

 FWIW I can see nothing wrong with the sentence, "... get rid of cli/sti 
and rely on spinlocks instead." seems like standard English usage to me.

  Maciej