From: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] cgroup: fix strstrip() abuse
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 12:15:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6599ad830910031215o293687ceyd8177cb1c34a41b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2f11576a0910030505w5a1289ebu78cdc3587caddc82@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:05 AM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> Thanks - although I think I'd s/abuse/misuse/ in the description.
>
> I don't know what's different between them. My dictionary is slightly quiet ;)
> Is this X-rated word? if so, I'll resend it soon.
Certainly not X-rated :-)
Generally "abuse" carries a connotation of intent (or perhaps
deliberate hackiness) whereas "misuse" simply indicates that the
previous code was wrong.
Paul
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-03 19:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-02 8:37 [PATCH 1/3] Mark strstrip() as must_check KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-02 8:39 ` [PATCH 2/3] Fix strstrip() abuse in elv_iosched_store() KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-02 8:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] cgroup: fix strstrip() abuse KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-02 22:01 ` Paul Menage
2009-10-03 12:05 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-10-03 19:15 ` Paul Menage [this message]
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