Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Documentation: x86: Fix typos

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Tamara Diaconita wrote:
>
>> Fix typos in x86 directory.
>> Make documentation clear and grammatically correct.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tamara Diaconita <diaconita.tamara@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
>> index 5e9b826..694979a 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
>> @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ Type:		read
>>  Offset/size:	0x20e/2
>>  Protocol:	2.00+
>>
>> -  If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a NUL-terminated
>> +  If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a NULL-terminated
>>    human-readable kernel version number string, less 0x200.  This can
>>    be used to display the kernel version to the user.  This value
>>    should be less than (0x200*setup_sects).
>> @@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ address of the struct boot_params.
>>
>>  **** EFI HANDOVER PROTOCOL
>>
>> -This protocol allows boot loaders to defer initialisation to the EFI
>> +This protocol allows boot loaders to defer initialization to the EFI
>
> This is an American vs British English issue.  I don't know if the Linux
> kernel prefers one or the other.

We prefer they are best left as they are!

http://marc.info/?i=20170313082328.06d0ccbf@lwn.net

BR,
Jani.


>
> julia
>
>>  boot stub. The boot loader is required to load the kernel/initrd(s)
>>  from the boot media and jump to the EFI handover protocol entry point
>>  which is hdr->handover_offset bytes from the beginning of
>> --
>> 2.9.3
>>
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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center