From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Richard Yang <weiyang@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux PCI <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: One question about the name pcibios_assign_all_busses()
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 13:11:00 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120607191100.GA15600@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120607080721.GA18832@richard>
On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 04:07:21PM +0800, Richard Yang wrote:
> busses, the ses means?
> or this is a typo? should be buses?
Both "buses" and "busses" are correct pluralisations in english.
See, for example, http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=bus&title=21st
--
Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-07 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-07 8:07 One question about the name pcibios_assign_all_busses() Richard Yang
2012-06-07 19:11 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2012-06-08 1:11 ` Richard Yang
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