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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2023 06:59:49 +0000
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@freebsd.org>
To:        Gordon Bergling <gbe@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jessica Clarke <jrtc27@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, "dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org" <dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: git: b12ccd0bb1b3 - main - stand: Remove double words in source code comments
Message-ID:  <ZD4/5ct2CICDmHX5@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <ZD4044dQFqKchPYO@lion.ttyv0.de>
References:  <202304180515.33I5FKdK006761@gitrepo.freebsd.org> <5B4D966A-896A-4C77-97CD-1594B9C79B42@freebsd.org> <ZD4044dQFqKchPYO@lion.ttyv0.de>

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On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 08:12:51AM +0200, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 06:31:28AM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> > On 18 Apr 2023, at 06:15, Gordon Bergling wrote:
> [...]
> > > --- a/stand/i386/boot0/Makefile
> > > +++ b/stand/i386/boot0/Makefile
> > > @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ BOOT_BOOT0_FLAGS?=	0x8f
> > > # 0xb6 (182d) corresponds to 10 seconds.
> > > BOOT_BOOT0_TICKS?=	0xb6
> > > 
> > > -# The base address that we the boot0 code to to run it.  Don't change this
> > > +# The base address that we the boot0 code to run it.  Don't change this
> > 
> > This was correct and is now incorrect; read as "that we [load] the
> > boot0 code to in order to run it".
> 
> I just reverted the change. Sorry, not a native speaker on this side
> and the sentence was a little hard to understand.

This reminds me of the situation with commit 8ca67bf1273 which jrtc27@
pointed out was wrong, so I'd say again that comments like this should
be rephrased: these consequent double words make it hard to understand
and just begging for someone to try to "fix" it again in the future.

./danfe



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