[PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct styling of MS-DOS

[PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct styling of MS-DOS

[Akiyoshi Kurita]

"MS-DOS" with a hyphen is the official styling. Change the
less common "MSDOS" to "MS-DOS" for correctness and consistency.

Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
index 1bb2a1c292aa..1e2abb2ef500 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ When pstore/blk is built into the kernel, "blkdev" accepts the following variant
    with no leading 0x, for example b302.
 #. PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF represents the unique id of
    a partition if the partition table provides it. The UUID may be either an
-   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MSDOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP,
+   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MS-DOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP,
    where SSSSSSSS is a zero-filled hex representation of the 32-bit
    "NT disk signature", and PP is a zero-filled hex representation of the
    1-based partition number.
-- 
2.47.3

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct styling of MS-DOS

[Jonathan Corbet]

Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org> writes:

> "MS-DOS" with a hyphen is the official styling. Change the
> less common "MSDOS" to "MS-DOS" for correctness and consistency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> index 1bb2a1c292aa..1e2abb2ef500 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ When pstore/blk is built into the kernel, "blkdev" accepts the following variant
>     with no leading 0x, for example b302.
>  #. PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF represents the unique id of
>     a partition if the partition table provides it. The UUID may be either an
> -   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MSDOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP,
> +   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MS-DOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP,
>     where SSSSSSSS is a zero-filled hex representation of the 32-bit

A quick grep shows a lot of occurrences of "MSDOS" in the kernel source.
I don't think the churn of fixing all of those is worth it...?

Thanks,

jon

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct styling of MS-DOS

[weibu]

Hi Jon,

You have a valid point. I agree that it's probably not worth the churn. 
Please feel free to drop this patch.

Thanks,Akiyoshi

2025-10-14 23:59 に Jonathan Corbet さんは書きました:
> Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org> writes:
> 
>> "MS-DOS" with a hyphen is the official styling. Change the
>> less common "MSDOS" to "MS-DOS" for correctness and consistency.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst 
>> b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
>> index 1bb2a1c292aa..1e2abb2ef500 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
>> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ When pstore/blk is built into the kernel, "blkdev" 
>> accepts the following variant
>>     with no leading 0x, for example b302.
>>  #. PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF represents the 
>> unique id of
>>     a partition if the partition table provides it. The UUID may be 
>> either an
>> -   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MSDOS partition using the format 
>> SSSSSSSS-PP,
>> +   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MS-DOS partition using the format 
>> SSSSSSSS-PP,
>>     where SSSSSSSS is a zero-filled hex representation of the 32-bit
> 
> A quick grep shows a lot of occurrences of "MSDOS" in the kernel 
> source.
> I don't think the churn of fixing all of those is worth it...?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon