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| author | Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> | 2018-11-19 12:02:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2018-11-20 17:30:43 +0100 |
| commit | 806654a9667c6f60a65f1a4a4406082b5de51233 (patch) | |
| tree | 08b92f004840fb39bd563db58d0fb8bd5c6cc95a /Documentation/device-mapper | |
| parent | dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation (diff) | |
| download | linux-806654a9667c6f60a65f1a4a4406082b5de51233.tar.xz linux-806654a9667c6f60a65f1a4a4406082b5de51233.zip | |
Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:
| Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
| formal, and "while" is the common word.
|
| [...]
|
| Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
| use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
| uses?
dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.
Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/device-mapper')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt index 52a719b49afd..2355bef14653 100644 --- a/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt +++ b/Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ The target is named "raid" and it accepts the following parameters: [data_offset <sectors>] This option value defines the offset into each data device where the data starts. This is used to provide out-of-place - reshaping space to avoid writing over data whilst + reshaping space to avoid writing over data while changing the layout of stripes, hence an interruption/crash may happen at any time without the risk of losing data. E.g. when adding devices to an existing raid set during |