linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] include/linux/regmap.h: fix a couple of typos

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Message-ID: <CAOMwXhNsuG-s7z2xfZK9-qGPWNoyuE_1x3pSmz6CC2qyiituLA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jan 2014 01:46:12 +0000
From:	Laszlo Papp <lpapp@....org>
To:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] include/linux/regmap.h: fix a couple of typos

On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 09:08:44PM +0000, Laszlo Papp wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 9:02 PM, Laszlo Papp <lpapp@....org> wrote:
>
>> > That being said, I will not have time, nor the motivation to argue
>> > over such a nuance, so feel free to reject the change.
>
>> Of course, this is just on top of the vim spell checker error as I
>> wrote in the commit message...
>
>> Oh yes, and one more factual data in here:
>
>> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\." . | wc -l
>> 3447
>
>> lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn " eg," | wc -l
>> 18
>
> That's not the issue - it's dropping the comma.  It's either "e.g." or
> "eg", the comma is a separate thing providing a break between clauses.
> Strictly it should have the periods since it is an abbreviation but
> their use is more vauge in fixed point text since they look ugly, the
> thing that made me complain was that you dropped the comma as well as
> substituting in the expanded version.

I still do not get what point you are trying to make. Could you please
provide evidence? Because really, this is the usage I have seen in
projects out there all around, including the majority of the linux
kernel.

Here is some more data:

grep -rn "e\.g\. " . | wc -l
2553
lpapp ~/Projects/linux-staging $ grep -rn "e\.g\.," . | wc -l
573
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