Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:16:03 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.x, 2.4.x ...] very small |
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javaman wrote: > A very small patch (my first patch :-) for Documentation/spinlocks.txt: > it replace "IFF" with "IF" ;-) > > bye, > Paolo > > --- Documentation/spinlocks.txt.orig Fri Feb 21 15:02:01 2003 > +++ Documentation/spinlocks.txt Fri Feb 21 15:02:44 2003 > @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ > > If you have a case where you have to protect a data structure across > several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use > -cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IFF you know that the spinlocks are > +cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IF you know that the spinlocks are > never used in interrupt handlers, you can use the non-irq versions: > > spin_lock(&lock); >
This is wrong. IFF means "If and only if".
-- Brian Gerst
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