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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Diego Viola <diego.viola@gmail.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 07:40:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <537A17F8.6050109@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+ToGPF_GnnNhSUZjmbyu=5Nk=i2cTkoWPiykaO4EKJSfvNh-w@mail.gmail.com>

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
>>> --


-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-19 14:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-02 18:42 [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline Steven Rostedt
2014-04-02 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-02 19:04 ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-02 19:05   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-02 19:08   ` Randy Dunlap
2014-04-02 19:50   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-02 20:05     ` Richard Weinberger
2014-04-02 20:43       ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-04-02 22:18   ` Greg KH
2014-04-02 19:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-02 19:33   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-02 22:12 ` Mateusz Guzik
2014-04-02 22:30   ` David Daney
2014-04-02 22:37   ` Greg KH
2014-04-02 23:13   ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-02 23:23     ` Jiri Kosina
2014-04-02 23:28       ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-02 23:42         ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-02 23:47           ` Jiri Kosina
2014-04-02 23:52             ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-02 23:57               ` Jiri Kosina
2014-04-03  1:38               ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-03  1:47               ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-03  9:03                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-03 10:43                 ` Joerg Roedel
2014-04-03 17:05                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-03 17:09                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-03 17:18                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-03 19:19                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2014-04-04 18:21                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-04 18:32                       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-04 18:57                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-04 19:09                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-04 21:17                         ` John Stoffel
2014-04-04 23:17                           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-04-05 14:37                             ` John Stoffel
2014-04-05 23:23                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-04 18:42                       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-04 18:51                         ` Andrew Morton
2014-04-04 18:57                           ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-06 20:49                             ` David Timothy Strauss
2014-05-06  9:38                               ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-04 19:44                           ` Steven Rostedt
2014-04-04 20:17                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-04 22:45                               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-04-04 22:48                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-04 19:00                         ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-04-03 11:23                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-03 11:38                   ` Ingo Molnar
2014-04-15  7:26                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-03 10:34               ` Måns Rullgård
2014-04-03 11:03                 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-04-06 17:19                   ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-05-06  9:47                   ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-02 23:47           ` Joe Perches
2014-04-02 23:31       ` Linus Torvalds
2014-04-03 11:25       ` Måns Rullgård
2014-04-03 15:17         ` Tim Bird
2014-04-03 18:06           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-06  9:35             ` Felipe Contreras
2014-04-07  4:54     ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-02 22:34       ` Andrew Morton
2014-05-05  2:17         ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-05 13:15           ` Randy Dunlap
2014-05-06  0:57             ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-19  8:06               ` Diego Viola
2014-05-19  8:11                 ` Diego Viola
2014-05-19 14:40                   ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2014-05-20  1:26                     ` Rusty Russell
2014-05-20  6:26                       ` Diego Viola
2014-05-21  1:52                         ` Rusty Russell
2014-04-03  0:49   ` Steven Rostedt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-04-23 15:15 Borislav Petkov
2014-04-23 20:44 ` Borislav Petkov

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