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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.5.x, 2.4.x ...] very small
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 03:25:17PM +0100, javaman wrote:
> A very small patch (my first patch :-) for Documentation/spinlocks.txt:
> it replace "IFF" with "IF" ;-)
>
> bye,
> Paolo
>
> --- Documentation/spinlocks.txt.orig Fri Feb 21 15:02:01 2003
> +++ Documentation/spinlocks.txt Fri Feb 21 15:02:44 2003
> @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@
>
> If you have a case where you have to protect a data structure across
> several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use
> -cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IFF you know that the spinlocks are
> +cheaper versions of the spinlocks. IF you know that the spinlocks are
> never used in interrupt handlers, you can use the non-irq versions:
>
> spin_lock(&lock);
>

IFF is usually an abbreviation for "If and only if", not a typo.

--
Murray J. Root

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