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Date:	Mon, 19 May 2014 05:06:54 -0300
From:	Diego Viola <diego.viola@...il.com>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	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

e.g. should be written as e.g. or e.g.,

There's no need to add another colon ":" after the one that it's already there.

See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.g.#e.g.

Please fix that.

Thanks,

Diego

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
> 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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