From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Justin P. Mattock" Subject: Re: [RFC 1/6]Fix typo "recieve" in various parts of the kernel. Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:06:23 -0700 Message-ID: <4D9F246F.2030305@gmail.com> References: <1302192567-842-1-git-send-email-justinmattock@gmail.com> <20110407200541.GC8569@pengutronix.de> <4D9E4A59.8010604@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Uwe_Kleine-K=F6nig?= , "trivial@kernel.org" , "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-usb@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "socketcan-core@lists.berlios.de" , "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" To: Ricard Wanderlof Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On 04/08/2011 12:14 AM, Ricard Wanderlof wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Apr 2011, Justin P. Mattock wrote: > >> On 04/07/2011 01:05 PM, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 09:09:22AM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote: >>>> The patch below fixes some typos "recieve" in various parts of the >>>> kernel. >>>> Note: these below are in actual code rather than comments(excpet f= or >>>> r852.c which >>> s/excpet/except/ >>> >>>> has a code fix, and comment). >>>> compile tested as best as I can... >>> I'm not a native speaker, but "as good as" sounds better in my ears= =2E >>> >>> Best regards >>> Uwe >>> >> >> your right.. gcc and friends are the one's doing all the reall work: >> "as good as *" > > I think Uwe was thinking of grammar rather than who was doing the act= ual > work. > > Now that I've gone more or less off topic I may as well voice my opin= ion > the 'as best as I can' sounds like a mixup of two constructs: either = 'as > best I can' (which is probably slightly unusual these days), or 'as w= ell > as I can'. 'I've done it as good as I can' is gramatically wrong (sin= ce > 'good' is an adjective and 'well' is an adverb, and it is referring t= o > 'how I did it' (or in the case above, 'how well I tested it'), but > fairly common nevertheless, and given the large percentage of non-nat= ive > speakers in the Linux community I wouldn't worry about it, the meanin= g > is clear anyway. > > I'll shut up and go now. :-) > > /Ricard well... pretty good explanation. Justin P. Mattock