Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct styling of MS-DOS

[Jonathan Corbet]

Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "MS-DOS" with a hyphen is the official styling. Change the
> less common "MSDOS" to "MS-DOS" for correctness and consistency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> index 1bb2a1c292aa..1e2abb2ef500 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pstore-blk.rst
> @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ When pstore/blk is built into the kernel, "blkdev" accepts the following variant
>     with no leading 0x, for example b302.
>  #. PARTUUID=00112233-4455-6677-8899-AABBCCDDEEFF represents the unique id of
>     a partition if the partition table provides it. The UUID may be either an
> -   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MSDOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP,
> +   EFI/GPT UUID, or refer to an MS-DOS partition using the format SSSSSSSS-PP,
>     where SSSSSSSS is a zero-filled hex representation of the 32-bit

A quick grep shows a lot of occurrences of "MSDOS" in the kernel source.
I don't think the churn of fixing all of those is worth it...?

Thanks,

jon