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From: Minfei Huang <mnghuan@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: labbott@fedoraproject.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	mgorman@techsingularity.net, mhocko@suse.com, vbabka@suse.cz,
	rientjes@google.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com,
	iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use existing helper to convert "on/off" to boolean
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 12:47:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160430044716.GA18250@dhcp-128-44.nay.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160429142110.b4039a422866754bc914b8b2@linux-foundation.org>

On 04/29/16 at 02:21P, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 13:47:04 +0800 Minfei Huang <mnghuan@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > It's more convenient to use existing function helper to convert string
> > "on/off" to boolean.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/lib/kstrtox.c
> > +++ b/lib/kstrtox.c
> > @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(kstrtos8);
> >   * @s: input string
> >   * @res: result
> >   *
> > - * This routine returns 0 iff the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0', or
> > + * This routine returns 0 if the first character is one of 'Yy1Nn0', or
> 
> That isn't actually a typo.  "iff" is shorthand for "if and only if". 
> ie: kstrtobool() will not return 0 in any other case.
> 
> Use of "iff" is a bit pretentious but I guess it does convey some
> conceivably useful info.
> 

Got it. Thanks for your explanation.

Thanks
Minfei

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      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-30  4:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-29  5:47 Minfei Huang
2016-04-29  8:04 ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-29  9:07   ` Minfei Huang
2016-04-29  9:21     ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-29 21:21 ` Andrew Morton
2016-04-30  4:47   ` Minfei Huang [this message]

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