On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:40 PM, One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Right, as a verb, if the comment had said "some devices retard the reset recovery process" that would be pedantic word choice but more in line with a specific technical meaning of the word. > 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) Actually, no, int this case I'm specifically concerned with adjective usage "retarded devices". Where the implication is there is something wrong with the device. Unfortunately in the US it has become a slur and slang term to classify the "worst of things". I suspect that usage has not made it to the UK? -- 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
