Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750778AbWJQMuu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:50:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750783AbWJQMuu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:50:50 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:59866 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750778AbWJQMut (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:50:49 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix typos in doc and comments (1) From: Alan Cox To: Randy Dunlap Cc: Jan Engelhardt , akpm@osdl.org, Matt LaPlante , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20061016160738.2199bbcb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <20061016160738.2199bbcb.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:17:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1161091046.24237.159.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 679 Lines: 16 Ar Llu, 2006-10-16 am 16:07 -0700, ysgrifennodd Randy Dunlap: > > Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know > > persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can > > spell in more than one correct way, let me know. > > I agree with it, but IIRC Alan said it could be either way. OED has both but says of the -ance version "older". Seems fine to me Acked-by: Alan Cox - 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/