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Message-ID: <162b5545-7d24-3cf2-9158-3100ef644e03@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 15:04:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Mat Martineau <mathew.j.martineau@...ux.intel.com>
To:     wangjianli <wangjianli@...rlc.com>
cc:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@...sares.net>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        mptcp@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/mptcp: fix repeated words in comments

On Sun, 23 Oct 2022, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 03:05:27PM +0800, wangjianli wrote:
>> Delete the redundant word 'the'.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: wangjianli <wangjianli@...rlc.com>
>> ---
>>  net/mptcp/token.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/net/mptcp/token.c b/net/mptcp/token.c
>> index f52ee7b26aed..b817c2564300 100644
>> --- a/net/mptcp/token.c
>> +++ b/net/mptcp/token.c
>> @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mptcp_token_get_sock);
>>   * This function returns the first mptcp connection structure found inside the
>>   * token container starting from the specified position, or NULL.
>>   *
>> - * On successful iteration, the iterator is move to the next position and the
>> + * On successful iteration, the iterator is move to the next position and
>>   * the acquires a reference to the returned socket.
>>   */
>>  struct mptcp_sock *mptcp_token_iter_next(const struct net *net, long *s_slot,
>
> NAK!
>
> Instead, slightly reword the comment above as "On successful iteration,
> the iterator moves to the next position and acquires a reference to the
> returned socket.".
>

Agree on this rewording.

This particular duplicated word came up before, and I thought it would be 
best if the author sent a v2 - but they never did. I will fix this in the 
MPTCP tree next week if there's no suitable v2 by then.

--
Mat Martineau
Intel