Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

Randy Dunlap
2014-05-19T14:41:17Z

On 05/19/2014 01:11 AM, Diego Viola wrote:
> I mean "e.g.:" is wrong, it should be e.g. or e.g.,

I don't see that in the wikipedia page. Are you basing that on
"in this usage it is sometimes followed by a comma, depending on style."?

I don't see a problem with the colon, since the quoted phrase has some
conditions in it, like "sometimes" and "depending". Colons are often used
to delimit a list or an example, but I'll leave it up to Rusty.

> Sorry to be too nitpicky or annoying about this.
>
> Diego
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com> wrote:
>> e.g. should be written as e.g. or e.g.,
>>
>> There's no need to add another colon ":" after the one that it's already there.
>>
>> See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.g.#e.g.
>>
>> Please fix that.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Diego
>>
>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>>> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:
>>>> All looks good to me except for 2 instances of "eg" which should be
>>>> "e.g." (just above and about 4 paragraphs below here).
>>>
>>> Thanks, fixed:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>>> index 56a4c2d0c741..a42b9dd6b46b 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>>> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>>> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
>>> Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
>>>
>>> Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
>>> -line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, eg:
>>> +line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
>>>
>>> (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
>>> (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
>>> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
>>> can also be entered as
>>> log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
>>>
>>> -Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, eg:
>>> +Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
>>> param="spaces in here"
>>>
>>> This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
>>> --

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~Randy