Hi, i wrote: > > This function shall obtain the drive status and not wait until the > > status of the medium is decided.
mick crane wrote: > I have noticed that people whose first language might not be english use > "shall" as apposed to "will" or "should". The topic has its own wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shall_and_will In german it is "soll" (= shall/demanding), "sollte" (= should/proposing), and "wird" (= will/predicting or shall/predicting). I meant it in the way of technical specification of purpose. Dan Ritter wrote: > The English use it more than Americans do. In school it was a big deal to distinguish "will" and "shall". (I was very eager to forget the exact rules when nobody cared any more.) I wrote: > > I [...] needed several curious attempts during 2.5 years to finally > > understand what happened. Gene Heskett wrote: > with better tools that I. Only fgrep in local /usr/src/linux-source-3.16 and linux-4.1.6 and Iceweasel were involved. In the end it was about reading all commits to sr.c, sr_ioctl.c, and cdrom.c since the release of kernel 2.6.18 (where i knew that the bug was not in) up to 3.16 (where i first experienced the bug). Like https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/drivers/scsi/sr.c As said, i was very curious. Have a nice day :) Thomas
