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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: typos
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 04:30:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092731414.1859.3.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1092730251.18997.16.camel@gollum.tnic>

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 04:10, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> Hi there guys,
> I've been pondering on posting about this for a long time but I guess
> I'll just go and say it. I've been reading the lkml for about a year now
> and, I don't know how important it is to you, but I think that typos in
> the comments in the kernel sources really annoy those who really read
> them in order to understand what's going on. Well, I'm one of them, and,
> since the typos are really a lot, I thought that maybe fixing them would
> be a good idea.
> Here's a patch. Please, tell me if you don't want such noise on the list
> but I think that, although not crucial, somewhat correct english in the
> comments would be better, or?
> 
> Regards,
> Boris
> 
> 

--- foo.orig	2004-08-17 04:27:55.000000000 -0400
+++ foo.fixed	2004-08-17 04:29:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -44,11 +44,11 @@
 and, I don't know how important it is to you, but I think that typos in
 the comments in the kernel sources really annoy those who really read
 them in order to understand what's going on. Well, I'm one of them, and,
-since the typos are really a lot, I thought that maybe fixing them would
+since there are really a lot of typos, I thought that maybe fixing them would
 be a good idea.
-Here's a patch. Please, tell me if you don't want such noise on the list
-but I think that, although not crucial, somewhat correct english in the
-comments would be better, or?
+Here's a patch. Please, tell me if you don't want such noise on the
+list.  I think that, although not crucial, somewhat more correct english in the
+comments would be better.
 
 Regards,
 Boris



  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-17  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-17  8:10 typos Borislav Petkov
2004-08-17  8:30 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-08-17  8:41   ` typos Borislav Petkov
2004-08-17  8:44     ` typos Lee Revell
2004-08-17  9:17       ` typos David Greaves
2004-08-17  9:40         ` typos Borislav Petkov

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