[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message

[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message

[Stefan Weil]

Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.

Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
---
 arch/arm/mach-bcm2835/Kconfig |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-bcm2835/Kconfig b/arch/arm/mach-bcm2835/Kconfig
index 560045c..d1f9612 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-bcm2835/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-bcm2835/Kconfig
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ config ARCH_BCM2835
 	select PINCTRL_BCM2835
 	help
 	  This enables support for the Broadcom BCM2835 SoC. This SoC is
-	  use in the Raspberry Pi, and Roku 2 devices.
+	  used in the Raspberry Pi and Roku 2 devices.
-- 
1.7.10.4

[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message

[Stephen Warren]

On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.

Well, typo not grammar. The comma is correct though, at least in
American English, which is what I tend to write these days (there's a
comma before the and in a list of items).

[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thursday 05 December 2013, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> > Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.
> 
> Well, typo not grammar. The comma is correct though, at least in
> American English, which is what I tend to write these days (there's a
> comma before the and in a list of items).

Listen to the two German guys teaching you about your native language:
while you can do this in both British and American English for a list
(it's called the serial comma or the Oxford comma [1]), two nouns 
separated by "and" are not a list, and this doesn't apply here.

	Arnd

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message

[Stephen Warren]

On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.

Applied to bcm2835's for-3.14/soc branch.

(I'm not convinced about the
serial-comma-applies-to-lists-of-three-or-more-items rule, since two
items are clearly a list, and it's inconsistent with what I recall
seeing in practice, but anyway).

[PATCH] ARM: bcm2835: Fix grammar in help message

[Randy Dunlap]

On 12/06/13 20:41, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
>> Replace "is use" by "is used" and remove a comma.
> 
> Applied to bcm2835's for-3.14/soc branch.
> 
> (I'm not convinced about the
> serial-comma-applies-to-lists-of-three-or-more-items rule, since two
> items are clearly a list, and it's inconsistent with what I recall
> seeing in practice, but anyway).

I agree with Arnd's comments -- serial comma is not for use just to
separate <a> and <b>.


-- 
~Randy