netdev - Re: [PATCH] nl80211: fix a mistake in grammar

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Message-ID: <c4ab41c7-7230-2548-f7ab-1a0aa8d16e36@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 9 Jun 2021 08:01:05 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, 13145886936@....com,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gushengxian <gushengxian@...ong.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nl80211: fix a mistake in grammar

On 6/9/21 1:55 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-06-09 at 01:15 -0700, 13145886936@....com wrote:
>>
>> -	/* don't allow or configure an mcast address */
>> +	/* don't allow or configure a mcast address */
> 
> Arguable? I'd say "an M-cast" address, and I guess that's why it's
> written that way. Not sure how else you'd say it, unless you always
> expand it to "multicast" when reading.

Agreed, it's ok as is.