From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:06:00 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603211006.04681.ncunningham@cyclades.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060320125012.GA21545@elf.ucw.cz>
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Hi.
On Monday 20 March 2006 22:50, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong...
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c2c85bc..8fd6d4e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux
> Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle
> <http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/CodingStyle>
>
> -Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format:
> +Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format:
> <http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183>
> --
> Last updated on 17 Nov 2005.
I read all the other messages, and still felt I needed to reply :).
This patch is correct. If a name ends in an s, the possessive form simply gets
an apostrophe.
Plurals are irrelevant to the discussion, but I'll answer another part of the
thread too. If you wanted to say that something belonged to Linus and his
family, you'd still do Torvalds', and get the fact that Torvalds was in the
plural from other words in the context (if possible).
Regards,
Nigel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-21 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-20 12:50 SubmittingPatches typo Pavel Machek
2006-03-20 19:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 20:47 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-03-20 20:53 ` Chris Boot
2006-03-20 20:55 ` Pavel Machek
2006-03-20 20:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 21:03 ` Matheus Izvekov
2006-03-20 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-20 22:02 ` Nick Warne
2006-03-20 22:37 ` Chris Boot
2006-03-20 21:02 ` J. Bruce Fields
2006-03-21 11:16 ` Alan Cox
2006-03-21 17:45 ` [PATCH] " Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-22 9:32 ` 祁勇
2006-03-21 0:06 ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
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