Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Oct 2017 09:02:32 +0100 | From | Charles Keepax <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gpio: Fix loose spelling |
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 09:38:05AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 4:57 AM, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> wrote: > > > Literally. > > > > I expect "lose" was meant here, rather than "loose", though you could feasibly > > use a somewhat uncommon definition of "loose" to mean what would be meant by > > "lose": "Loose the hounds" for instance, as in "Release the hounds". > > Substituting in "value" for "hounds" gives "release the value", and makes some > > sense, but futher substituting back to loose gives "loose the value" which > > overall just seems a bit anachronistic. > > > > Instead, use modern, pragmatic English and save a character. > > > > Cc: Russell Currey <ruscur@russell.cc> > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au> > > Patch applied as obviously correct. >
Indeed yes very sorry for that one, for some reason I have always had a massive blind spot for those two words. You really wouldn't think English was my first language.
Thanks, Charles
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