On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:15:53AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:19:40 +0100 > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 02:36:32AM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > ... > > > FWIW I agree that double-negatives are confusing and we should > > > avoid them. > > > > Right! No more: CHECKSUM_NONE, SOCK_NOSPACE, IFF_NOARP or KERN_NOTICE! > > Life is difficult sometimes, but that is no excuse to further > the pain :-)
BTW, maybe somebody else finds this interesting (because you seem to know this very well), in some languages, like Polish, e.g.: "that is no excuse" needs double-negative: "to nie jest zadne wytlumaczenie", so literally: "that not is no excuse"... Cheers, Jarek P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
