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

The patch will make sense for some people. I was puzzled about the
double-negative for quite a while.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:53 PM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Ben Hutchings <redacted>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:39:18 +0000

quoted

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

quoted

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. ;-)

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

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