From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>,
Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: fix documentation typos
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 07:50:59 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200117075059.28cf842c@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK7LNASYynBVaaGROEjy1PC7+9xatO7gf2LTRGG1UOpiXtzENw@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:17:15 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
> > -all errors appear to involve one or more select's and one or more "depends on".
> > +all errors appear to involve one or more "selects" and one or more "depends on".
>
>
> I think "selects" is strange here.
>
> "select" is a Kconfig keyword.
> select's is intentional, I guess.
>
> Keep it as-is, or perhaps change it into "select" (singular) ?
Apostrophe abuse is one of those ways to annoy a certain percentage of
your reader's :)
It could be as Bjorn made it, or:
"select" statements
``select``s
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-17 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-13 23:22 [PATCH] kconfig: fix documentation typos Bjorn Helgaas
2020-01-16 19:52 ` Jonathan Corbet
2020-01-17 2:27 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-01-17 2:17 ` Masahiro Yamada
2020-01-17 3:54 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-01-17 4:07 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2020-01-17 14:50 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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