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From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: Richard Palethorpe <rpalethorpe@suse.de>
Cc: ltp@lists.linux.it
Subject: Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/1] Fix tst_mkfs_ doc
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2022 18:24:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yfls2zBSl/DcHucs@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877daey2wp.fsf@suse.de>

Hi Richie,
> 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*.
Thanks for the explanation, merged with are.

Kind regards,
Petr

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-02-01 17:25 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
2022-02-01 17:24       ` Petr Vorel [this message]

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