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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/static-keys.txt | |
| parent | dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation (diff) | |
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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/static-keys.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/static-keys.txt | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/static-keys.txt b/Documentation/static-keys.txt index ab16efe0c79d..d68135560895 100644 --- a/Documentation/static-keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/static-keys.txt @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ or increment/decrement function. Note that switching branches results in some locks being taken, particularly the CPU hotplug lock (in order to avoid races against -CPUs being brought in the kernel whilst the kernel is getting +CPUs being brought in the kernel while the kernel is getting patched). Calling the static key API from within a hotplug notifier is thus a sure deadlock recipe. In order to still allow use of the functionnality, the following functions are provided: |