Re: PATCH: "Ok" -> "OK" in messages

[Måns Rullgård]

<cutaway@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "Sean M. Burke" <sburke@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The English interjection "OK" is misspelled as "Ok" in a dozen
>> messages in the Linux kernel.  The following patch corrects
>> those typos from "Ok" to "OK".  It affects no comments or
>> symbol-names -- and it stops me wanting to gnaw my fingers off every
>> time I see "Ok, booting the kernel."!
>
> That's not the most annoying IMO - see how many instances of something like
> this you'll sprinkled around:
>
> printk("The PukeMaster is %sabled.\n", SomeFlag ? "dis" : "en");
>
> If a NLS translator isn't a C programmer, they'll screw it up frequently.

That's true, but the Linux kernel isn't subject to NLS translations.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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