From 806654a9667c6f60a65f1a4a4406082b5de51233 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Will Deacon Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 11:02:45 +0000 Subject: Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Cc: Liam Girdwood Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Michael Halcrow Cc: Jonathan Corbet Reported-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/filesystems/xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt index 05aa455163e3..68604e67a495 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/xfs-self-describing-metadata.txt @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ owner field in the metadata object, we can immediately do top down validation to determine the scope of the problem. Different types of metadata have different owner identifiers. For example, -directory, attribute and extent tree blocks are all owned by an inode, whilst +directory, attribute and extent tree blocks are all owned by an inode, while freespace btree blocks are owned by an allocation group. Hence the size and contents of the owner field are determined by the type of metadata object we are looking at. The owner information can also identify misplaced writes (e.g. -- cgit v1.2.1