Re: Two comments/fixes for pre-2.0.30

mdean (mdean@best.com)
Sun, 23 Mar 1997 12:33:52 -0800 (PST)


anybody ran a SPELL-CHECK on the kernel sources lately? :)

On Sat, 22 Mar 1997, Gerry S Hayes wrote:

> Chris Evans <chris@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> > Just to be petty, if we're fixing spelling, here's one that's being
> > annoying me for ages during my scrutinies of the 3c59x.c driver; there's
> > an "iff" (grep for it) that should be "if" surprisingly enough.
>
> Nope. That's definitely an iff, not an if. (Read the comment more
> closely and keep in mind that "if" is forward implication while "iff"
> is bidirectional (if and only if). It's a common abbreviation in
> logic/CS since writing out "if and only if" gets tedious).
>
> Cordially,
>
> Sumner
>