Richard A Downing wrote:
The excellent page 7.4 on "Device and Module Handling on an LFS System" has a minor wording difficulty for me.
Only minor (or am I missing a sarcasm-detection plugin)? The whole page needs rewriting following the removal of hotplug and advancements made in udev since it was originally written.
"A kernel driver may not export its data to sysfs." means that a kernel driver is not allowed, by some unspecified rules, to export its data to sysfs. What I think you mean is "A kernel driver might not export its data to sysfs." - subtle, but important. It's only recently that our general language laxity has let this kind of malapropism in.
Indeed, along with real gems(!) like "my bad", to which I usually respond "your bad what?" which confuses the offender even more!
I'm also not keen on "Once the above stage is complete..." in 7.4.2. "Once the stage described above is complete..." is much better, or even "After this stage is complete..." if brevity is desired.
And agreed again, although with the major overhaul already required that paragraph will likely be edited beyond all recognition anyway.
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