linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: Correct user visible printk

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Date:	Fri, 2 May 2008 16:44:14 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hfsplus: Correct user visible printk

> Google clearly shows that journaled is the accepted, and thus preferred 
> term. Maybe if you'd proposed this patch (and others everywhere else 

No google shows that Linux is referenced a lot.

> journaled has been used) 5 years ago you'd been right. At this stage I 
> think a change would only confuse.

You may do. I don't, and I would point out that having a proper
dictionary term is enormously important to people who meet a term they
not met before.

Finally I put more weight on the views of the professional bodies for
computing than on you ;)

Alan
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