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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	"Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org>,
	trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:33:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1119569595.18898.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42BAE3B1.5010209@am.sony.com>

On Iau, 2005-06-23 at 17:30, Tim Bird wrote:
> Language neutrality is not a goal for kernel messages,
> that I'm aware of.  I disagree with this change because
> it yields a net reduction in understanding what's going
> on during booting.

Just change the "Uncompressing" to "Decompressing". The other proposal
of including the version is a good one as is correcting the "Ok".
Whatever occurs porting the code into English can only be a good thing.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-23 23:38 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
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 [this message]
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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