On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 19:33:04 -0800 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We want our contributors to spend their anger, resentment, and > frustration emotional resources on finding and fixing broken code. We > do not want those valuable resources wasted on unfortunately worded > comments. The comment appears to be very accurately worded in this case. To retard is to slow down. We allow 30 seconds of idleness for very slow devices. Now I can see why you might want to remove the word in some other context such as if we had /* Linus is such a retard */ but this context appears to be correct, and in fact a rather clever bit of wordplay (intended or otherwise) Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
