linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

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Message-ID: <87eh07bu60.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 06 May 2014 10:27:43 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:
> All looks good to me except for 2 instances of "eg" which should be
> "e.g." (just above and about 4 paragraphs below here).

Thanks, fixed:

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 56a4c2d0c741..a42b9dd6b46b 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ environment, others are passed as command line arguments to init.
 Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init.
 
 Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command
-line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, eg:
+line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.:
 
 	(kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1
 	(modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in parameter names, so
 can also be entered as
 	log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1
 
-Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, eg:
+Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.:
 	param="spaces in here"
 
 This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command
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