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Message-ID: <47b9a567-cdb7-c4af-5766-959a4ec5a77b@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 10:30:13 +0100
From:   Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@...aro.org>
To:     Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>,
        linux-realtek-soc@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        James Tai [戴志峰] <james.tai@...ltek.com>,
        Stanley Chang [昌育德] 
        <stanley_chang@...ltek.com>, Edgar Lee <cylee12@...ltek.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@...il.com>,
        Fabrice Gasnier <fabrice.gasnier@...com>,
        Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@....com>,
        Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
        Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 27/29] nvmem: core: Grammar fixes for help text



On 23/06/2020 03:51, Andreas Färber wrote:
> It's "an unsigned" but "a U".
> Similarly, "an entry" but "a binary entry".
> 
> While at it, also drop superfluous articles for negative and zero.
> 
> Fixes: 8b977c5498b8 ("nvmem: core: add nvmem_cell_read_u64")
> Fixes: 0a9b2d1ce422 ("nvmem: core: add nvmem_cell_read_u16")
> Fixes: d026d70a2e94 ("nvmem: core: Add nvmem_cell_read_u32")
> Fixes: f1f50eca5f90 ("nvmem: Introduce devm_nvmem_(un)register()")
> Fixes: eace75cfdcf7 ("nvmem: Add a simple NVMEM framework for nvmem providers")
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@...e.de>
> ---
>   In theory, for clean backports this would need to be split into 5 pieces...
>   Not sure whether anyone would actually do that for help text?
>   Dropping the Fixes headers might be an alternative.

TBH, it adds lot of confusion while automatically back-porting these 
patches! For now I have removed these Fixes tags and applied.

As I do not feel this is going to add any value in back-porting this 
grammar fixes!!

--srini
>   
>   v2: New
>   
>   drivers/nvmem/core.c | 12 ++++++------
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/nvmem/core.c b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> index fc480d636be2..95bed31391cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/nvmem/core.c
> @@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ static int nvmem_add_cells_from_of(struct nvmem_device *nvmem)
>   
>   /**
>    * nvmem_register() - Register a nvmem device for given nvmem_config.
> - * Also creates an binary entry in /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/dev-name/nvmem
> + * Also creates a binary entry in /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/dev-name/nvmem
>    *
>    * @config: nvmem device configuration with which nvmem device is created.
>    *
> @@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ static void devm_nvmem_release(struct device *dev, void *res)
>   /**
>    * devm_nvmem_register() - Register a managed nvmem device for given
>    * nvmem_config.
> - * Also creates an binary entry in /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/dev-name/nvmem
> + * Also creates a binary entry in /sys/bus/nvmem/devices/dev-name/nvmem
>    *
>    * @dev: Device that uses the nvmem device.
>    * @config: nvmem device configuration with which nvmem device is created.
> @@ -772,7 +772,7 @@ static int devm_nvmem_match(struct device *dev, void *res, void *data)
>    * @dev: Device that uses the nvmem device.
>    * @nvmem: Pointer to previously registered nvmem device.
>    *
> - * Return: Will be an negative on error or a zero on success.
> + * Return: Will be negative on error or zero on success.
>    */
>   int devm_nvmem_unregister(struct device *dev, struct nvmem_device *nvmem)
>   {
> @@ -1375,7 +1375,7 @@ static int nvmem_cell_read_common(struct device *dev, const char *cell_id,
>   }
>   
>   /**
> - * nvmem_cell_read_u16() - Read a cell value as an u16
> + * nvmem_cell_read_u16() - Read a cell value as a u16
>    *
>    * @dev: Device that requests the nvmem cell.
>    * @cell_id: Name of nvmem cell to read.
> @@ -1390,7 +1390,7 @@ int nvmem_cell_read_u16(struct device *dev, const char *cell_id, u16 *val)
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvmem_cell_read_u16);
>   
>   /**
> - * nvmem_cell_read_u32() - Read a cell value as an u32
> + * nvmem_cell_read_u32() - Read a cell value as a u32
>    *
>    * @dev: Device that requests the nvmem cell.
>    * @cell_id: Name of nvmem cell to read.
> @@ -1405,7 +1405,7 @@ int nvmem_cell_read_u32(struct device *dev, const char *cell_id, u32 *val)
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nvmem_cell_read_u32);
>   
>   /**
> - * nvmem_cell_read_u64() - Read a cell value as an u64
> + * nvmem_cell_read_u64() - Read a cell value as a u64
>    *
>    * @dev: Device that requests the nvmem cell.
>    * @cell_id: Name of nvmem cell to read.
>