Re: [PATCH 2.5.x, 2.4.x ...] very small

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Fri Feb 21 2003 - 10:08:51 EST


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, javaman wrote:
>
> A very small patch (my first patch :-) for Documentation/spinlocks.txt:
> it replace "IFF" with "IF" ;-)

The IFF is just a way of saying "if and only if". So it's not actually a
typo, it's just that some of the kernel people probably took a few too
many courses in mathematics and their English-language skills were
impacted by it.

                        Linus

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