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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:54:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150806125435.694d9ee3@noble> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55B5A880.8040500@infradead.org>

On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 20:41:52 -0700 Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
wrote:

> On 07/24/15 17:28, NeilBrown wrote:
> > 
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> Some edits for you to consider.

Wow, thanks.  I think I agree with all ... had to do some research for
"neither is" though.

> 
> > +However, there is a little bit more to seqlocks than that.  If
> > +RCU-walk accesses two different fields in a seqlock-protected
> > +structure, or accesses the same field twice, there is no a-priori
> 
>                                              no hyphen:      ^

Do you have an opinion on where I should but "a priori" in italics?
I feel there needs to be something to make it clear the "a" is not an
English "a".

Jon: do you want an incremental patch, or a resend?

Thanks,
NeilBrown


  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-06  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-25  0:28 [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup NeilBrown
2015-07-27  3:41 ` Randy Dunlap
2015-08-06  2:54   ` NeilBrown [this message]
2015-08-06  2:56     ` Randy Dunlap
2015-08-06 10:01     ` Jonathan Corbet
2015-10-26  6:35       ` [PATCHv2] " Neil Brown
2015-10-27 21:21         ` J. Bruce Fields
2015-10-27 23:12           ` Neil Brown
2015-11-03  1:19         ` Jonathan Corbet

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