From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
Allan Duncan <allan.d@bigpond.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andre@linux-ide.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre4-ac1
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 13:01:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020825110156.GB1107@louise.pinerecords.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020824140706.GA17957@codepoet.org>
> > > The message "Warning: Primary channel requires an 80-pin cable for operation"
> > > is (apart from being wrongly asserted as we know) incorrect is detail:
> > > the plugs ARE 40-pin, the cable however is 80 conductor.
> >
> > True, but I'm not sure a longer less obvious message will help users
>
> "Warning: Limiting speed since you did not use an 80-conductor cable"
Pronouns should generally be avoided in formulations such as this one,
simply because there's no way to tell who it really was who didn't use
an 80-conductor cable. Go with a passive sentence instead.
T.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-25 10:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-23 10:46 Alan Cox
2002-08-23 12:21 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-23 14:06 ` Eyal Lebedinsky
2002-08-23 14:29 ` Linux 2.4.20-pre4-ac1 (this time regarding 2.5.31) Thunder from the hill
2002-08-23 14:53 ` Steven Cole
2002-08-23 15:07 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-23 15:52 ` Greg KH
2002-08-23 15:51 ` Linux 2.4.20-pre4-ac1 Greg KH
2002-08-23 14:59 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-23 15:16 ` [PATCH] fix bitops.h circular dependancies Erik Andersen
2002-08-23 15:59 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-23 15:57 ` Linux 2.4.20-pre4-ac1 Markus Plail
2002-08-23 18:16 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-23 16:30 ` Anssi Saari
2002-08-23 16:56 ` Markus Plail
2002-08-24 16:03 ` Anssi Saari
2002-08-23 17:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-23 19:30 ` Anssi Saari
2002-08-24 13:27 ` Allan Duncan
2002-08-24 13:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-24 14:07 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-25 11:01 ` Tomas Szepe [this message]
2002-08-25 11:10 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-25 11:32 ` Thomas Molina
2002-08-25 11:45 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-25 12:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-08-25 12:19 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-25 12:25 ` Sean Neakums
2002-08-25 13:44 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-08-26 2:01 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-25 11:41 ` Tomas Szepe
2002-08-26 0:24 ` Allan Duncan
2002-08-25 21:33 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-08-24 17:32 ` Axel Siebenwirth
2002-08-24 17:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-25 4:49 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2002-08-25 20:15 ` Adrian Bunk
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