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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>,
	linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	"Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct styling of MS-DOS
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 08:59:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o6q9bkcn.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250926184824.40270-1-weibu@redadmin.org>

Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org> writes:

> "MS-DOS" with a hyphen is the official styling. Change the
> less common "MSDOS" to "MS-DOS" for correctness and consistency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> index 1bb2a1c292aa..1e2abb2ef500 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ When pstore/blk is built into the kernel, "blkdev" accepts the following variant
>     with no leading 0x, for example b302.
>  #. PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF represents the unique id of
>     a partition if the partition table provides it. The UUID may be either an
> -   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MSDOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP,
> +   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MS-DOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP,
>     where SSSSSSSS is a zero-filled hex representation of the 32-bit

A quick grep shows a lot of occurrences of "MSDOS" in the kernel source.
I don't think the churn of fixing all of those is worth it...?

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-14 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-26 18:48 Akiyoshi Kurita
2025-10-14 14:59 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2025-10-16  0:05   ` weibu

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