Re: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Jan 11 2009 - 20:34:30 EST


On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 09:05 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> > @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ struct inet_bind_bucket;
> > struct inet_timewait_sock {
> > /*
> > * Now struct sock also uses sock_common, so please just
> > - * don't add nothing before this first member (__tw_common) --acme
> > + * don't add anything before this first member (__tw_common) --acme
>
> They are the same meaning...

A double-negative can be an informal way of reinforcing a negative, but
can sometimes mean the positive. So this change would remove a minor
ambiguity. However I think it should be clear that it is not compulsory
to add new members to the structure. ;-)

Ben.

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