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Message-ID: <50115B72.2070604@matrix-vision.de>
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:00:02 +0200
From:	Michael Jones <michael.jones@...rix-vision.de>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
CC:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] regulator: grammar fix in Kconfig

On 07/26/2012 04:48 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:07:24PM +0200, Michael Jones wrote:
>
>> -	  constraints then the regulator core will provide an always
>> -	  enabled dummy regulator will be provided, allowing consumer
>> -	  drivers to continue.
>> +	  constraints, the regulator core will provide an always-
>> +	  enabled dummy regulator, allowing consumer drivers to continue.
>
> This appears to be making the grammar worse, it's just removing a "then"
> and inserting, random commas which don't make, much sense.
>

What I was trying to fix was the double "provide" in "will provide an... 
will be provided."  I agree that the if...then... was ugly, too.

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