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SubjectRe: [PATCH] include/linux/regmap.h: fix a couple of typos
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 06:59:57PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> wrote:
>>> > On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 05:22:18PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote:
>>
>>> >> - * (eg, a clear on read interrupt status register). If this
>>> >> + * (e.g. a clear on read interrupt status register). If this
>>
>>> > This is somewhat outdated orthorgraphy...
>>
>>> Pardon ?
>>
>> It's not that common to write it as an abbreviation (even though it is
>> one) and for some random reason you've decided to drop the comma which
>> is standard.
>
> Cannot agree. I see this effectively almost anywhere, and I even asked
> this on IRC from native English speaker in #English @ freenode who
> were in an agreement with me as far as I can tell.
>
> That being said, I will not have time, nor the motivation to argue
> over such a nuance, so feel free to reject the change.

Of course, this is just on top of the vim spell checker error as I
wrote in the commit message...

Oh yes, and one more factual data in here:

lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\." . | wc -l
3447

lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn " eg," | wc -l
18


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