linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kconfig: fix documentation typos

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Message-ID: <20200117075059.28cf842c@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 17 Jan 2020 07:50:59 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: fix documentation typos

On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:17:15 +0900
Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org> wrote:

> > -all errors appear to involve one or more select's and one or more "depends on".
> > +all errors appear to involve one or more "selects" and one or more "depends on".  
> 
> 
> I think "selects" is strange here.
> 
> "select" is a Kconfig keyword.
> select's is intentional, I guess.
> 
> Keep it as-is, or perhaps change it into "select" (singular) ?

Apostrophe abuse is one of those ways to annoy a certain percentage of
your reader's :)

It could be as Bjorn made it, or:

	"select" statements
	``select``s

jon