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On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:17:15 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:

> > -all errors appear to involve one or more select's and one or more "depends on".
> > +all errors appear to involve one or more "selects" and one or more "depends on".  
> 
> 
> I think "selects" is strange here.
> 
> "select" is a Kconfig keyword.
> select's is intentional, I guess.
> 
> Keep it as-is, or perhaps change it into "select" (singular) ?

Apostrophe abuse is one of those ways to annoy a certain percentage of
your reader's :)

It could be as Bjorn made it, or:

	"select" statements
	``select``s

jon