linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] trival: fix typo akin/asking for documentation

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Message-Id: <20091212091157.2596d3b3.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Date:	Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:11:57 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	T Dent <tdent48227@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] trival: fix typo akin/asking for documentation

On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:07:51 -0500 T Dent wrote:

> From: T Dent <tdent48227@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:04:25 -0500
> Subject:
> To: rdunlap@...otime.net
> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> 
> Fixed typo in Documentation/CodingStyle
> 
> From 47b08656a62b00b36c24315c63f2d48f70037de3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tracey Dent <Tdent48227@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:16:18 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] trival: fix typo akin/asking for documentation
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tracey Dent <Tdent48227@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/CodingStyle |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
> index 8bb3723..e7c60be 100644
> --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
> +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Anyway, here goes:
> 
>  Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters.
>  There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!)
> -characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to
> +characters deep, and that is asking to trying to define the value of PI to

No thanks, akin is valid there.  ("that is similar to")

>  be 3.
> 
>  Rationale: The whole idea behind indentation is to clearly define where


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~Randy
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