Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 14:54:30 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pozs=E1r_Bal=E1zs?= <pozsy@uhulinux.hu>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       trivial@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages
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On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 12:29:52PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 03:13 -0800, 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."!
> 
> If you're going to do that, you might as well fix 'Uncompressing Linux'
> to 'Decompressing Linux' too, and stop _me_ from being annoyed as well.

While we are at it, what about changing this string to something 
language-neutral, like this:

diff -Naurdp a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c
--- a/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c	2004-04-04 05:37:23.000000000 +0200
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c	2004-05-09 23:18:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/linkage.h>
+#include <linux/version.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 #include <linux/tty.h>
 #include <video/edid.h>
@@ -373,9 +374,9 @@ asmlinkage int decompress_kernel(struct 
 	else setup_output_buffer_if_we_run_high(mv);
 
 	makecrc();
-	putstr("Uncompressing Linux... ");
+	putstr("Linux " UTS_RELEASE);
 	gunzip();
-	putstr("Ok, booting the kernel.\n");
+	putstr("\n");
 	if (high_loaded) close_output_buffer_if_we_run_high(mv);
 	return high_loaded;
 }


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pozsy
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