On 05/19/2014 01:11 AM, Diego Viola wrote: > I mean "e.g.:" is wrong, it should be e.g. or e.g.,
I don't see that in the wikipedia page. Are you basing that on "in this usage it is sometimes followed by a comma, depending on style."? I don't see a problem with the colon, since the quoted phrase has some conditions in it, like "sometimes" and "depending". Colons are often used to delimit a list or an example, but I'll leave it up to Rusty. > Sorry to be too nitpicky or annoying about this. > > Diego > > On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:06 AM, Diego Viola <diego.vi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> e.g. should be written as e.g. or e.g., >> >> There's no need to add another colon ":" after the one that it's already >> there. >> >> See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.g.#e.g. >> >> Please fix that. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Diego >> >> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:57 PM, Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: >>> Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> writes: >>>> All looks good to me except for 2 instances of "eg" which should be >>>> "e.g." (just above and about 4 paragraphs below here). >>> >>> Thanks, fixed: >>> >>> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt >>> b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt >>> index 56a4c2d0c741..a42b9dd6b46b 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt >>> @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ environment, others are passed as command line arguments >>> to init. >>> Everything after "--" is passed as an argument to init. >>> >>> Module parameters can be specified in two ways: via the kernel command >>> -line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, eg: >>> +line with a module name prefix, or via modprobe, e.g.: >>> >>> (kernel command line) usbcore.blinkenlights=1 >>> (modprobe command line) modprobe usbcore blinkenlights=1 >>> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Hyphens (dashes) and underscores are equivalent in >>> parameter names, so >>> can also be entered as >>> log-buf-len=1M print_fatal_signals=1 >>> >>> -Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, eg: >>> +Double-quotes can be used to protect spaces in values, e.g.: >>> param="spaces in here" >>> >>> This document may not be entirely up to date and comprehensive. The command >>> -- -- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
