Re: Documentation updates to 2.1.93

Paul Gortmaker (paul@rasty.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Wed, 8 Apr 1998 22:07:04 +1000 (EST)


> This is a 100% safe patch - it doesn't touch one line of code :) It
> clears out my own list of documentation updates and typo fixes.
>
> Errr.... not so fast. It's perhaps "safe", but I do object to the
> wholesale replacement of the word "deprecated" with "depreciated".
> Deprecate is a real word, and it means something quite different from
> depreciate:

Oops, my apologies - I stand corrected. Never heard the former used
before (and I suspect I'm not alone in this department). Ignore that
part of the patch then.

> Out of curiosity, what did you do? Run ispell on the .c files? :-)

No, of course not. :) I saw deprecated printk'd when a dip script used
cuaX, thought it was an honest typo, grep'ed for it in drivers/char
and to my surprise, found several of them. (yes, that should have been
my 1st clue...)

[Aside: I still think printing the PID and the program name as per what
I posted a while ago is more useful to the average user than the
current cuaX warning... Just $0.02 from a guy with a limited vocab.]

Paul.

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