From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: Tim Cambrant <cambrant@acc.umu.se>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: power/disk.c: small fixups
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:24:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41775625.6050102@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cone.1098338726.500663.12209.502@pc.kolivas.org>
Con Kolivas wrote:
> Tim Cambrant writes:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 08:16:17PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>>> power_down may never ever fail, so it does not really need to return
>>> anything. Kill obsolete code and fixup old comments. Please apply,
>>>
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> @@ -162,7 +163,7 @@
>>> *
>>> * If we're going through the firmware, then get it over with
>>> quickly.
>>> *
>>> - * If not, then call pmdis to do it's thing, then figure out how
>>> + * If not, then call swsusp to do it's thing, then figure out how
>>> * to power down the system.
>>> */
>>
>>
>> I hate to be picky, but changing "it's" to the more correct "its" would
>> perhaps be nice to do when you're at it?
>
>
> "it's" means it belongs to, so therefore "it's" is correct usage here.
>
Actually this is an exception. "it's" is an abbreviation for "it is",
"its" is possessive.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 18:16 Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 19:37 ` Tim Cambrant
2004-10-20 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-21 6:05 ` Con Kolivas
2004-10-21 6:24 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-10-21 19:31 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-10-24 10:09 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-24 14:17 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-10-26 6:12 Clayton Weaver
2004-10-26 8:55 ` David Weinehall
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