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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2018-11-19 11:02:45 +0000
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-11-20 09:30:43 -0700
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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>
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@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ or increment/decrement function.
Note that switching branches results in some locks being taken,
particularly the CPU hotplug lock (in order to avoid races against
-CPUs being brought in the kernel whilst the kernel is getting
+CPUs being brought in the kernel while the kernel is getting
patched). Calling the static key API from within a hotplug notifier is
thus a sure deadlock recipe. In order to still allow use of the
functionnality, the following functions are provided: