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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.

From Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.
Date 2015-08-06 05:00 +0200
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On 08/05/15 19:54, NeilBrown wrote:
> 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".

I don't think that italics are needed for that.

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


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~Randy
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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup. Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2015-08-06 05:00 +0200

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