From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 09EEE2F5339; Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760453947; cv=none; b=ZtU9en8re0BkhPGpFJWN+hBYMsR1yRpI4OedBcCs4wYTefgdwASAvwjLopjlmmSM/OQuiTRCB+3nWyGSOwxhhuCPP11KYFrpH2KpzOWMYCIRtUG4f0BLMnbfI8lWBb+hHx8uW8QxHzqWNxYcI7fRlJFtnkDGLSXpu0+E4J9zCg0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1760453947; c=relaxed/simple; bh=lTpixwap7pMwPWpUbxJaULnTGt3DY5OsC+tHMRhEmFY=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=WTDMLMtrQzZWVqX0qZt+ghe2Qgb2KJRxDJfCDMqGRSOui2GuVysPUOtR2X+e/v967PdmCgCy8uuHrSmOfDv9cIkkWrmZLWWo7gkSH7+O9nZTZMHC9C6/7Q9DgRuLEXt8rNInAPUqPJqhyffr5AvYUprBynTssJ2EqQThGFjTx0Y= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b=Ck6A73zk; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.79.88.28 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="Ck6A73zk" DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net E08B040B1E DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1760453945; bh=yClp+s/hQ2rC4D75oi+tnkKw/aw3tj99GBVJki7e0nA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=Ck6A73zkVgs43jbq7vL3OOrTSKSWoLEPCPShlau3DpnvNA1JMnEv5mNKFpqY4l+o9 OE3v+sZBpFPeS5ZkNy11CMpN4awmufXzTw0imQdvwhWU3e1ah9saugr7zN7QSngcWi JgP5jBhMjjR0RxXe+YDhEONias/1VPctz/NCdYdkNaYUq+FaaK93T9eRq5oJPuojr5 F4nt//39qZT5HZ2ZFZwFig65nUTpnuBOZqHxvu0YXzryOEPYqHzLaajsRvwI+kx7r5 +FoyTt46t+OnwfhmJMnvb4l+cHpDMBskh5d8yH5yu9WClda/8P/0KrTiElJSG96MS1 XIiSIgaZtjcrw== Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:280:4600:2da9::1fe]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E08B040B1E; Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:59:04 +0000 (UTC) From: Jonathan Corbet To: Akiyoshi Kurita , Kees Cook , linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tony Luck , "Guilherme G. Piccoli" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Akiyoshi Kurita Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct styling of MS-DOS In-Reply-To: <20250926184824.40270-1-weibu@redadmin.org> References: <20250926184824.40270-1-weibu@redadmin.org> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:59:04 -0600 Message-ID: <87o6q9bkcn.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Akiyoshi Kurita writes: > "MS-DOS" with a hyphen is the official styling. Change the > less common "MSDOS" to "MS-DOS" for correctness and consistency. > > Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita > --- > Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst > index 1bb2a1c292aa..1e2abb2ef500 100644 > --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst > +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst > @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ When pstore/blk is built into the kernel, "blkdev" accepts the following variant > with no leading 0x, for example b302. > #. PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF represents the unique id of > a partition if the partition table provides it. The UUID may be either an > - EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MSDOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP, > + EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MS-DOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP, > where SSSSSSSS is a zero-filled hex representation of the 32-bit A quick grep shows a lot of occurrences of "MSDOS" in the kernel source. I don't think the churn of fixing all of those is worth it...? Thanks, jon