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From: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.de>
To: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/1] Fix tst_mkfs_ doc
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:06:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877daey2wp.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YflRs6o15kRQ7aiI@pevik>

Hello,

Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi Cyril,
>
>> >   * @fs_opts: NULL or NULL terminated array of mkfs options
>> > - * @extra_opt: extra mkfs option which is passed after the device name
>> > + * @extra_opts: NULL or NULL terminated array of extra mkfs options which is
>>                                                                              ^
>> 									     are
> I wasn't sure about the grammar, I thought the NULL *is* passed or
> the NULL terminated array *is* passed. But not really sure.
>
> Kind regards,
> Petr

*are* sounds more natural to me. Probably due to the order of specifying
the array (singular) then its contents (plural). If you wrote something
like "The extra mkfs options NULL terminated array is ...", then it
would be more natural to use *is*.

-- 
Thank you,
Richard.

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-01 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-26 16:47 [LTP] [PATCH 1/1] Fix tst_mkfs_ doc Petr Vorel
2022-02-01 11:58 ` Cyril Hrubis
2022-02-01 15:28   ` Petr Vorel
2022-02-01 16:06     ` Richard Palethorpe [this message]
2022-02-01 17:24       ` Petr Vorel

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