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Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:02:45 +0000 (11:02 +0000)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Tue, 20 Nov 2018 16:30:43 +0000 (09:30 -0700)
commit806654a9667c6f60a65f1a4a4406082b5de51233
tree08b92f004840fb39bd563db58d0fb8bd5c6cc95a
parent48c465d23d5ce55a84062e556e07a8a663349536
Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"

Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:

  | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
  | formal, and "while" is the common word.
  |
  | [...]
  |
  | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
  | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
  | uses?

dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.

Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".

Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
33 files changed:
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/admin-guide/security-bugs.rst
Documentation/arm/Booting
Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/GPIO.txt
Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt
Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Suspend.txt
Documentation/core-api/assoc_array.rst
Documentation/device-mapper/dm-raid.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/idle-states.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pci/host-generic-pci.txt
Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt
Documentation/filesystems/caching/backend-api.txt
Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
Documentation/filesystems/caching/netfs-api.txt
Documentation/filesystems/caching/operations.txt
Documentation/filesystems/qnx6.txt
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Documentation/filesystems/xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt
Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt
Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt
Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/extended-controls.rst
Documentation/memory-barriers.txt
Documentation/networking/de4x5.txt
Documentation/networking/rxrpc.txt
Documentation/power/regulator/overview.txt
Documentation/s390/3270.ChangeLog
Documentation/security/credentials.rst
Documentation/security/keys/request-key.rst
Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt
Documentation/sound/soc/dai.rst
Documentation/sound/soc/dpcm.rst
Documentation/static-keys.txt
Documentation/thermal/power_allocator.txt