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

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 09:05 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:

quoted

@@ -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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