From: <cutaway@bellsouth.net>
To: "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <trivial@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 09:14:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007001c56387$235672d0$2800000a@pc365dualp2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42985251.6030006@cpan.org>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@cpan.org>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <trivial@rustcorp.com.au>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2005 07:13
Subject: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages
> The English interjection "OK" is misspelled as "Ok" in a dozen
> messages in the Linux kernel. The following patch corrects
> those typos from "Ok" to "OK". It affects no comments or
> symbol-names -- and it stops me wanting to gnaw my fingers off every
> time I see "Ok, booting the kernel."!
That's not the most annoying IMO - see how many instances of something like
this you'll sprinkled around:
printk("The PukeMaster is %sabled.\n", SomeFlag ? "dis" : "en");
If a NLS translator isn't a C programmer, they'll screw it up frequently.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-28 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-28 11:13 Sean M. Burke
2005-05-28 11:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-05-28 12:54 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-23 16:30 ` Tim Bird
2005-06-23 16:53 ` Pozsár Balázs
2005-06-23 18:32 ` Tim Bird
2005-06-23 23:33 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-28 11:53 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 12:12 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-28 12:19 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 16:08 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-05-28 13:14 ` cutaway [this message]
2005-05-28 12:29 ` Måns Rullgård
2005-05-28 21:02 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-29 3:04 ` cutaway
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