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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 12:29:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117279792.32118.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42985251.6030006@cpan.org>

On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 03:13 -0800, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> The English interjection "OK" is misspelled as "Ok" in a dozen
> messages in the Linux kernel.  The following patch corrects
> those typos from "Ok" to "OK".  It affects no comments or
> symbol-names -- and it stops me wanting to gnaw my fingers off every
> time I see "Ok, booting the kernel."!

If you're going to do that, you might as well fix 'Uncompressing Linux'
to 'Decompressing Linux' too, and stop _me_ from being annoyed as well.

There's another error within the context of your patch too.

-- 
dwmw2


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-28 11:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-28 11:13 PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages Sean M. Burke
2005-05-28 11:29 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2005-05-28 12:54   ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-23 16:30     ` Tim Bird
2005-06-23 16:53       ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-23 18:32         ` Tim Bird
2005-06-23 23:33       ` Alan Cox
2005-05-28 11:53 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 12:12   ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-28 12:19     ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 16:08       ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-05-28 13:14 ` cutaway
2005-05-28 12:29   ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 21:02   ` Lee Revell
2005-05-29  3:04     ` cutaway

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