From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>,
Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>,
linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Add a high resolution sched_clock() via cnt32_to_63().
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:42:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091123084241.GA23635@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091122202314.GB1941@linux-mips.org>
* Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 07:06:16PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > > MIPS's is not really a proper English. :-)
> >
> > AFAIK 'MIPS' is not the plural of 'MIP' (but an acronym ending with
> > 'S'), hence the possessive form would be MIPS's.
>
> MIPS Technologies' IP lawyers insist that MIPS is a proper name and
> not an acronym - this position has certain advantages in trademark
> law.
That too seems to support my point that "MIPS's" is the right spelling.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-23 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-22 7:44 [PATCH v2] MIPS: Add a high resolution sched_clock() via cnt32_to_63() Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-22 8:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-22 11:08 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-22 11:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-22 12:35 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-22 13:18 ` Wu Zhangjin
2009-11-22 11:51 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2009-11-22 18:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-22 20:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2009-11-23 8:42 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-12-02 1:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
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