Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754224AbZLBB6V (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:58:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754098AbZLBB6U (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:58:20 -0500 Received: from eddie.linux-mips.org ([78.24.191.182]:43497 "EHLO eddie.linux-mips.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753310AbZLBB6T (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Dec 2009 20:58:19 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:58:23 +0000 (GMT) From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Ingo Molnar cc: Ralf Baechle , Sergei Shtylyov , Wu Zhangjin , linux-mips@linux-mips.org, Thomas Gleixner , Michal Simek , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Add a high resolution sched_clock() via cnt32_to_63(). In-Reply-To: <20091123084241.GA23635@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20091122081328.GB24558@elte.hu> <4B0925BD.6070507@ru.mvista.com> <20091122180616.GB24711@elte.hu> <20091122202314.GB1941@linux-mips.org> <20091123084241.GA23635@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1020 Lines: 25 On Mon, 23 Nov 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > MIPS's is not really a proper English. :-) > > > > > > AFAIK 'MIPS' is not the plural of 'MIP' (but an acronym ending with > > > 'S'), hence the possessive form would be MIPS's. > > > > MIPS Technologies' IP lawyers insist that MIPS is a proper name and > > not an acronym - this position has certain advantages in trademark > > law. > > That too seems to support my point that "MIPS's" is the right spelling. My understanding is that "MIPS" is actually meant (as far as IP law is concerned) to be an adjective, so you can't really make a possessive form out of it as it is irrelevant. The correct form IMHO is thus simply: "MIPS sched_clock implementation" which happens to sound the best to me too. Maciej -- 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/