Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:34:34 +0200

> Now the second wording *IS* technically correct, but come on, it's
> 24 words long whereas the original one was 3 -- and hopefully anybody
> reading the shorter phrase *would* have known anyway what was meant,
> without having to be pedantic about it :-)

Well you were talking pretty formal (and detailed) stuff, so
IMHO it's good to have that exactly correct.  Sure it's nicer
to use small words most of the time :-)

Segher