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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NET: fix wrong English expression in comments
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:39:18 +0000

> 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. ;-)

After all of this discussion, I think I'm going to keep this comment
as-is. :-)



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