Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262717AbVE1MaF (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 08:30:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262718AbVE1MaF (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 08:30:05 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:17069 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262717AbVE1MaA (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2005 08:30:00 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 14:29:18 +0200 Message-ID: References: <42985251.6030006@cpan.org> <007001c56387$235672d0$2800000a@pc365dualp2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f4wJRpOtdiFcTOat2Iyzg+EfTKI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 992 Lines: 22 writes: > "Sean M. Burke" wrote: > >> The English interjection "OK" is misspelled as "Ok" in a dozen >> messages in the Linux kernel. The following patch corrects >> those typos from "Ok" to "OK". It affects no comments or >> symbol-names -- and it stops me wanting to gnaw my fingers off every >> time I see "Ok, booting the kernel."! > > That's not the most annoying IMO - see how many instances of something like > this you'll sprinkled around: > > printk("The PukeMaster is %sabled.\n", SomeFlag ? "dis" : "en"); > > If a NLS translator isn't a C programmer, they'll screw it up frequently. That's true, but the Linux kernel isn't subject to NLS translations. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@inprovide.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/