Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751530AbaAIBqP (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:46:15 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:44324 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585AbaAIBqN (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jan 2014 20:46:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140108214906.GB31886@sirena.org.uk> References: <1389201738-31406-1-git-send-email-lpapp@kde.org> <20140108180747.GT31886@sirena.org.uk> <20140108190758.GY31886@sirena.org.uk> <20140108214906.GB31886@sirena.org.uk> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 01:46:12 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3rR5Ho7yQb3eYFf9NCJKGBCetSU Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/regmap.h: fix a couple of typos From: Laszlo Papp To: Mark Brown Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Mark Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 09:08:44PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > >> > That being said, I will not have time, nor the motivation to argue >> > over such a nuance, so feel free to reject the change. > >> Of course, this is just on top of the vim spell checker error as I >> wrote in the commit message... > >> Oh yes, and one more factual data in here: > >> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\." . | wc -l >> 3447 > >> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn " eg," | wc -l >> 18 > > That's not the issue - it's dropping the comma. It's either "e.g." or > "eg", the comma is a separate thing providing a break between clauses. > Strictly it should have the periods since it is an abbreviation but > their use is more vauge in fixed point text since they look ugly, the > thing that made me complain was that you dropped the comma as well as > substituting in the expanded version. I still do not get what point you are trying to make. Could you please provide evidence? Because really, this is the usage I have seen in projects out there all around, including the majority of the linux kernel. Here is some more data: grep -rn "e\.g\. " . | wc -l 2553 lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\.," . | wc -l 573 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/