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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@vt.edu>,
	corbet@lwn.net, hdegoede@redhat.com, Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed typos in all directories of Documentation/ABI/
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 09:31:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YJPvl6Si9Xi0w5tG@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210506084237.1f8363ba@coco.lan>

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 08:42:37AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>  
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> > index ef00fada2efb..bfd017204563 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> > @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Description:
> >  		binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
> >  		device.  It should follow the VPD format defined in
> >  		PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
> > -		that some devices may have malformatted data.  If the
> > +		that some devices may have malformed data.  If the
> >  		underlying VPD has a writable section then the
> >  		corresponding section of this file will be writable.
> >  
> 
> (not a native English speaker here)
> 
> I'm in doubt about this one. The description is talking about the
> "VPD format".

Maybe "badly formatted" or to be more clear, "some devices may be
reported incorrectly forrmatted data"?

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-06 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-05 20:43 [PATCH] Fixed typos in all directories of Documentation/ABI/ Carlos Bilbao
2021-05-05 21:10 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-05-05 22:25   ` Carlos Bilbao
2021-05-05 22:28     ` Carlos Bilbao
2021-05-05 22:54       ` Randy Dunlap
2021-05-06  6:42 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-06 13:31   ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2021-05-06 14:54     ` Carlos Bilbao
2021-05-06 15:19       ` [PATCH v3] " Carlos Bilbao
2021-05-06 16:51         ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2021-05-13 13:30           ` Carlos Bilbao
2021-05-13 13:31             ` [PATCH v3.1] " Carlos Bilbao
2021-05-13 15:13               ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-05-07  9:11   ` [PATCH] " Jonathan Cameron

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