From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266557AbUBLXLn (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:11:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266656AbUBLXLn (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:11:43 -0500 Received: from mail6.fw-bc.sony.com ([160.33.98.73]:26316 "EHLO mail6.fw-bc.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266557AbUBLXLm (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:11:42 -0500 Message-ID: <402C0A23.3090901@am.sony.com> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:20:03 -0800 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Frank CC: linux kernel Subject: Re: PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle References: <200402130615.10608.mhf@linuxmail.org> In-Reply-To: <200402130615.10608.mhf@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Michael Frank wrote: > +Usage of the apostrophe <'> in kernel messages is deprecated > + > +Mis-spellings allowed in kernel messages are: > + > + dont, cant I know some people prefer this, but is it really necessary? It makes kernel programmers look illiterate. ============================= Tim Bird Senior Staff Engineer Sony Electronics E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com =============================