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* One question about the name pcibios_assign_all_busses()
@ 2012-06-07  8:07 Richard Yang
  2012-06-07 19:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Yang @ 2012-06-07  8:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux PCI

Hmm, 

I am confused by the function name. 

busses, the ses means?
or this is a typo? should be buses?

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Richard Yang
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* Re: One question about the name pcibios_assign_all_busses()
  2012-06-07  8:07 One question about the name pcibios_assign_all_busses() Richard Yang
@ 2012-06-07 19:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
  2012-06-08  1:11   ` Richard Yang
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Matthew Wilcox @ 2012-06-07 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Richard Yang; +Cc: Linux PCI

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 04:07:21PM +0800, Richard Yang wrote:
> busses, the ses means?
> or this is a typo? should be buses?

Both "buses" and "busses" are correct pluralisations in english.
See, for example, http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=bus&title=21st

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."

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* Re: One question about the name pcibios_assign_all_busses()
  2012-06-07 19:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
@ 2012-06-08  1:11   ` Richard Yang
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Richard Yang @ 2012-06-08  1:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthew Wilcox; +Cc: Richard Yang, Linux PCI

On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 01:11:00PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 07, 2012 at 04:07:21PM +0800, Richard Yang wrote:
>> busses, the ses means?
>> or this is a typo? should be buses?
>
>Both "buses" and "busses" are correct pluralisations in english.
>See, for example, http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/features/chref/chref.py/main?query=bus&title=21st
Thanks :)
I need to improve my English~
>
>-- 
>Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
>"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
>operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
>a retrograde step."

-- 
Richard Yang
Help you, Help me


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