Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:40:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:40:35 -0400 Received: from www.microgate.com ([216.30.46.105]:21006 "EHLO sol.microgate.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 23:40:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3AECECAF.10508@microgate.com> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:40:15 -0600 From: Paul Fulghum User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4 i686; en-US; 0.8.1) Gecko/20010421 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: deregister? In-Reply-To: <20010429211049.A17111@mp3revolution.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andres Salomon wrote: > I'm kind of curious; "deregister" is used quite often in the kernel: > > pcmcia_deregister_client ... > matroxfb_dh_deregisterfb > > Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, > according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. > Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in > place of "unregister"? Linux kernel source vs. the English language. One of them will have to bend... let's get ready to rumble! Now that it has been pointed out it will mildly irritate people (myself included) until it *is* corrected (I guess ignorance was bliss :-) Paul Fulghum paulkf@microgate.com - 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/