linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/PCI: fix spelling mistake in boot-interrupts

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Message-ID: <87jzp4605q.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:09:53 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, attreyee-muk
 <tintinm2017@...il.com>, bhelgaas@...gle.com
Cc: linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/PCI: fix spelling mistake in boot-interrupts

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On 12/23/23 10:44, attreyee-muk wrote:
>> Correct to “re-enabled” from “reenabled”.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Attreyee Mukherjee <tintinm2017@...il.com>
>
> Is "reenabled" confusing? I don't have a problem with it, but
> one web page [1] says that it's OK to use "re-" if not having
> the hyphen can be confusing.
>
> [1] https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/hyphens/hyphens-with-the-prefix-re/
>
> OTOH, some web sites say the "reenable" is OK, at least as an
> alternative spelling.

Either is probably fine; so I'm not quite sure why this is worth
changing?

Thanks,

jon