Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754203AbaAILTM (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:19:12 -0500 Received: from mezzanine.sirena.org.uk ([106.187.55.193]:49810 "EHLO mezzanine.sirena.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753557AbaAILTG (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jan 2014 06:19:06 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 11:18:50 +0000 From: Mark Brown To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Laszlo Papp , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, LKML Message-ID: <20140109111850.GF31886@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> <52CE0CC8.20500@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="6VDQonqeHUROYLTI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52CE0CC8.20500@infradead.org> X-Cookie: Go climb a gravity well! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 94.175.92.69 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: broonie@sirena.org.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/regmap.h: fix a couple of typos X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 26 Dec 2011 16:24:06 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mezzanine.sirena.org.uk) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --6VDQonqeHUROYLTI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:43:20PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On 01/08/14 17:46, Laszlo Papp wrote: > > 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. > I am used to seeing e.g. and i.e. always followed by a comma when they are > used to begin a sentence. However, I just checked and some online style > guides say to omit the comma and some say to use it, and we (Linux kernel) > don't really have a writing style guide to look at. I think that makes it > up to the maintainer to decide what is acceptable. More generally they're just abbreviations for the latin for for example and that is so (to a reasonable approximation) get used in the same way. --6VDQonqeHUROYLTI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJSzoWWAAoJELSic+t+oim9zUMP/jsoNKQ4BAyMDAm92SShITLc Xe5VWmnWRHajyX1DitfEtp3BnjC0x7MztT1TNstv6qMXCWdkc6gDDA4mkin7kYyF spGTigY347ZPv6DJARj9Q1YkNboL9dexckHKySbYGwlnl6hVp5LVSQytTIyDqxbA TKu1UMKfATALO69GGqBA3LVoq97GKtzb06nN1gGerxRgyWmwdwvEA/1//buZd5Wr PDdvPnUbuwsVe6jrkj8qi1oDtULkF4NFVEfuqXCSvU/DBx76Q/jS0Y3/xxkK1Qxm o/13Ws2X78MPiQKY8ECC8o2eqlbcHrukikD7x5NGSyXW0qLyimGPv0s65ZklLCtP ZvhdO1q2pl9QZf3xGReI+i9ax/FROjKgFUhLfZP06j+2+JGwTQ/yfZqmm8VmPAqA 2h4GvMxyu3nlShO7gvdo0xsexFx9d/ziOjX9vA2Z8/Vu5UfjTWTlBFqtLe8Ju7+h xLrT1ZbhSEl+3o3ce4rMa/WztXLj0qMsdBTByJtC/BOBYJDrS4Uyp7/0PfVbPbM+ BHOYlEfDLFDfaqKa+OE+3hkI5adgwYRPRL0mwJC0+nfLKCPe1SUbtey3ftxSetHO psi1BO84QWPQ4GAN0hYKCQ5J7SHrMayJ37rIzml7S/rxUb++4XyFsuKOoQRWuhDe sY4RcE5p/w0RjsqQRuLo =Hpng -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6VDQonqeHUROYLTI-- -- 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/