Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: emu10k1: fix "for/take a while" typos

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:44:20 +0200,
Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 04:28:00PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:21:29 +0200,
> > Ahelenia Ziemiańska wrote:
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
> > > ---
> > > v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/h2ieddqja5jfrnuh3mvlxt6njrvp352t5rfzp2cvnrufop6tch@tarta.nabijaczleweli.xyz/t/#u
> > Well, "awhile" is a proper word, AFAIK.
> Yes, but these two uses are clearly typos of "a while";
> "awhile" is used differently: you could do
> -	/* Step 3: Wait for awhile;   XXX We can't get away with this
> +	/* Step 3: Wait awhile;   XXX We can't get away with this
> for example.

That may be true from the strict grammatic POV, but "for awhile" is
seen relatively frequently and loosely perceived.


Takashi