From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH] printk-formats.txt documentation update Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 15:37:42 -0700 Message-ID: <20110609153742.2ad54aaa.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <20110609124549.48117a75.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1307654688-28015-1-git-send-email-amurray@mpcdata.com> <20110609145130.7fda9bd1.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <1307656829.13329.53.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1307656829.13329.53.camel@Joe-Laptop> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joe Perches Cc: Andrew Murray , w.sang@pengutronix.de, geert@linux-m68k.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org, udknight@gmail.com, namhyung@gmail.com, Andrew Murray On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:00:29 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 14:51 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 22:24:48 +0100 Andrew Murray wrote: > > > + For printing-16 byte UUID/GUIDs addresses. The additional 'l', 'L', > > For printing 16-byte > > You want to resend or shall I just fix it? > > Hey Randy. > > I find your seeming insistence on using a dash > between the numeric count and the word byte to > be a bit odd. > > Stylistically, why do you want it there? Mostly to make it clear. It's too easy to be ambiguous. > cheers, Joe Without hyphen: For printing 16 byte UUID/GUIDs addresses. Those adjectives are confusing. I don't know what that phrase means. It could easily mean 16 UUID/GUIDs, but it's ambiguous. But For printing 16-byte UUID/GUIDs addresses. That means (clearly to me) that UUID/GUIDs are 16-byte entities. Or see www.incredibleenglish.com/pdf/Hyphens.pdf, section 1, "Hyphenate unit modifiers." Or see http://www.ehow.com/how_4473498_use-hyphen-sentence.html, section 1, "Link compound modifiers with hyphens." Or see http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/040201HyphAdj.htm HTH. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***