On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 02:21:33PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 02 Sep 2019 21:19:24 +0200 > Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I am not used to the mathematical English jargon. It make sense, but then > > > > I > > > > would replace it with "If and only if": for clarity. > > > > > > While it's used in a number of places and it's pretty common wording > > > overall in the literature, I agree that we should probably change this in > > > locking API user facing documentation. > > > > I would say not only in locking/. The argument is valid for the entire > > Documentation/. I wait for Jon's opinion before proceeding. > > I don't really have a problem with "iff"; it doesn't seem like *that* > obscure a term to me. But if you want spell it out, I guess I don't have > a problem with that. We can change it - iff you send a patch to do it :) $ git grep -iwc iff Documentation Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/blkio-controller.rst:1 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cgroups.rst:1 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/freezer-subsystem.rst:2 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst:1 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/st-rc.txt:2 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/ibm,emac.txt:5 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-st.txt:1 Documentation/driver-api/libata.rst:1 Documentation/features/scripts/features-refresh.sh:1 Documentation/filesystems/directory-locking:1 Documentation/i2c/i2c-topology:3 Documentation/ioctl/hdio.rst:1 Documentation/locking/spinlocks.rst:1 Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.rst:1 Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt:2 Documentation/spi/spidev:2 Documentation/trace/ring-buffer-design.txt:1 Documentation/virt/kvm/api.txt:1 Documentation/virt/kvm/halt-polling.txt:1 (29 total) Of course that doesn't count any in kernel-doc.
