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From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>,
	Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ioctl_userfaultfd.2, userfaultfd.2: add minor fault mode
Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2022 23:48:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb85e759-d272-e165-beee-b0d1c8f87405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHvVcggpJ7hE8VbhL09mT0=eJ5C+iH1poi_-V2v_dMLjSbVnQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Axel,

On 3/22/22 17:31, Axel Rasmussen wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:21 AM Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
> <alx.manpages@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> +mode, user-space will receive a page-fault notification
>>
>> s/user-space/user space/
>>
>> See the following extract from man-pages(7):
>>
>>     Preferred terms
>>         The  following  table  lists some preferred terms to use in
>>         man pages, mainly to ensure consistency across pages.
>>
>>         Term                 Avoid using              Notes
>>         ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
>>         [...]
>>         user space           userspace
>>
>> However, when user space is used as an adjective, per the usual English
>> rules, we write "user-space".  Example: "a user-space program".
> 
> 100% agreed that "user space" is more correct, but this man page
> already has many instances of "user-space" in it. I'd suggest we
> either fix all of them, or just follow the existing convention within
> this page.
> 
> How about, leaving this as-is for this patch, to keep the diff tidy,
> and I can send a follow-up patch to fix all the instances of this in
> this page?
> 

Sure.  Sorry for the delay.

Thanks,

Alex

-- 
Alejandro Colomar
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-02 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-04 19:56 [PATCH v2] ioctl_userfaultfd.2, userfaultfd.2: add minor fault mode Axel Rasmussen
2021-07-27 16:32 ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-08-02 11:21   ` Mike Rapoport
2021-08-02 12:21     ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
2022-03-22 16:31       ` Axel Rasmussen
2022-04-02 21:48         ` Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) [this message]
2021-07-27 16:37 ` Peter Xu

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