Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751369AbWCUAH7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:07:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751377AbWCUAH7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:07:59 -0500 Received: from b3162.static.pacific.net.au ([203.143.238.98]:12496 "EHLO cust8446.nsw01.dataco.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751369AbWCUAH6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:07:58 -0500 From: Nigel Cunningham Organization: Cyclades Corporation To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: SubmittingPatches typo Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:06:00 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: kernel list References: <20060320125012.GA21545@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060320125012.GA21545@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2250450.IqYHotC3iE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603211006.04681.ncunningham@cyclades.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1897 Lines: 63 --nextPart2250450.IqYHotC3iE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi. On Monday 20 March 2006 22:50, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong... > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek > > diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c2c85bc..8fd6d4e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux > Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle > > > -Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format: > +Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format: > > -- > Last updated on 17 Nov 2005. I read all the other messages, and still felt I needed to reply :). This patch is correct. If a name ends in an s, the possessive form simply g= ets=20 an apostrophe. Plurals are irrelevant to the discussion, but I'll answer another part of t= he=20 thread too. If you wanted to say that something belonged to Linus and his=20 family, you'd still do Torvalds', and get the fact that Torvalds was in the= =20 plural from other words in the context (if possible). Regards, Nigel --nextPart2250450.IqYHotC3iE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEH0NsN0y+n1M3mo0RAqo6AKDKc6IrOhZ8NHBSchcLekdFZ06fXQCeOE/y IoTKQytX6IxOe4AnQI1PYys= =xUaS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2250450.IqYHotC3iE-- - 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/