From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: Correct user visible printk
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 16:44:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502164414.63615eb5@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805021742.50509.elendil@planet.nl>
> Google clearly shows that journaled is the accepted, and thus preferred
> term. Maybe if you'd proposed this patch (and others everywhere else
No google shows that Linux is referenced a lot.
> journaled has been used) 5 years ago you'd been right. At this stage I
> think a change would only confuse.
You may do. I don't, and I would point out that having a proper
dictionary term is enormously important to people who meet a term they
not met before.
Finally I put more weight on the views of the professional bodies for
computing than on you ;)
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 13:29 [PATCH] hfsplus: Correct user visible printk Alan Cox
2008-05-02 14:00 ` Frans Pop
2008-05-02 14:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-02 15:42 ` Frans Pop
2008-05-02 15:44 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-02 21:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-05-02 22:29 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-03 11:49 ` SL Baur
2008-05-03 12:06 ` Frans Pop
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