From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: root@chaos.analogic.com
Cc: Felipe Alfaro Solana <felipe_alfaro@linuxmail.org>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>,
David Hinds <dahinds@users.sourceforge.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA 2.5.X sleeping from illegal context
Date: 13 May 2003 14:37:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1052833031.432.11.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305121929300.6225@chaos>
On Maw, 2003-05-13 at 00:36, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Could somebody please change the error message? Although everybody
> seems to want to be a lawyer, even lawyers don't make law. Certainly
> Software Engineers don't. The correct word is 'invalid', not 'illegal'.
> Yes, I know there is a 30-year history of the use of that word in
> Unix, but it's wrong. Only governments make law.
Much to my suprise you are right on this. The reference dictionary is
quite explicit that "illegal" means prohibited by law. Since users will
eventually see this message it perhaps does make sense to fix it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-13 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-12 21:35 Paul Fulghum
2003-05-12 21:07 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-12 12:36 ` Paul Fulghum
2003-05-12 22:48 ` Russell King
2003-05-13 15:23 ` Paul Fulghum
2003-05-13 16:00 ` David Hinds
2003-05-12 22:31 ` Russell King
2003-05-12 23:16 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-05-12 23:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-05-12 23:52 ` Paul Fulghum
2003-05-13 13:37 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-05-13 23:33 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-14 13:25 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2003-05-13 2:07 ` Thomas Molina
2003-05-13 0:36 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-05-12 23:11 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-05-12 22:06 ` David Hinds
2003-05-12 12:37 ` Paul Fulghum
2003-05-12 22:44 ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-12 23:10 ` David Hinds
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