From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnetlink: fix spelling errors
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 23:09:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1334009344.7150.268.camel@deadeye> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120409132756.32daeaa6@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 13:27 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Minor spelling mistakes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
>
> --- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h 2012-02-27 08:43:02.400935781 -0800
> +++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h 2012-04-09 13:24:02.705034830 -0700
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static inline int rtnl_msg_family(const
> * @get_size: Function to calculate required room for dumping device
> * specific netlink attributes
> * @fill_info: Function to dump device specific netlink attributes
> - * @get_xstats_size: Function to calculate required room for dumping devic
> + * @get_xstats_size: Function to calculate required room for dumping device
> * specific statistics
> * @fill_xstats: Function to dump device specific statistics
> */
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ extern void rtnl_link_unregister(struct
> * @fill_link_af: Function to fill IFLA_AF_SPEC with address family
> * specific netlink attributes.
> * @get_link_af_size: Function to calculate size of address family specific
> - * netlink attributes exlusive the container attribute.
> + * netlink attributes exclusive the container attribute.
[...]
That's now a real word but it's not grammatically correct; 'exclusive
the' should be changed to 'exclusive of the' or 'excluding the'.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-09 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-09 20:27 [PATCH net-next] rtnetlink: fix spelling errors Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-09 22:09 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2012-04-11 4:32 ` [PATCH] rtnetlink: fix comments Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-13 17:33 ` David Miller
2012-04-11 4:34 ` [PATCH net-next] rtnetlink & bonding: change args got get_tx_queues Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-11 5:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-11 15:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-11 18:13 ` Jay Vosburgh
2012-04-11 18:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-04-13 17:31 ` David Miller
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