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From: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@inprovide.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 14:29:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xoeavmt41.fsf@ford.inprovide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 007001c56387$235672d0$2800000a@pc365dualp2

<cutaway@bellsouth.net> writes:

> "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org> wrote:
>
>> The English interjection "OK" is misspelled as "Ok" in a dozen
>> messages in the Linux kernel.  The following patch corrects
>> those typos from "Ok" to "OK".  It affects no comments or
>> symbol-names -- and it stops me wanting to gnaw my fingers off every
>> time I see "Ok, booting the kernel."!
>
> That's not the most annoying IMO - see how many instances of something like
> this you'll sprinkled around:
>
> printk("The PukeMaster is %sabled.\n", SomeFlag ? "dis" : "en");
>
> If a NLS translator isn't a C programmer, they'll screw it up frequently.

That's true, but the Linux kernel isn't subject to NLS translations.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-28 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-28 11:13 PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages Sean M. Burke
2005-05-28 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-28 12:54   ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-23 16:30     ` Tim Bird
2005-06-23 16:53       ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-23 18:32         ` Tim Bird
2005-06-23 23:33       ` Alan Cox
2005-05-28 11:53 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 12:12   ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-28 12:19     ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 16:08       ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-05-28 13:14 ` cutaway
2005-05-28 12:29   ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2005-05-28 21:02   ` Lee Revell
2005-05-29  3:04     ` cutaway

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