[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Fix various typos found by Lintian
Luca Boccassi
bluca at debian.org
Wed Mar 4 16:28:40 CET 2020
On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 14:34 +0000, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 29/02/2020 16:37,
> luca.boccassi at gmail.com
> wrote:
> > From: Luca Boccassi <
> > bluca at debian.org
> > >
> >
> > Cc:
> > stable at dpdk.org
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <
> > bluca at debian.org
> > >
> > ---
> > Debian's linter is getting more and more annoy^^smart and now
> > parses binaries
> > for typos too - CC stable to get it off my back in the next release
> >
>
> Minor: Probably linter is better trained in the Queen's English than
> me
> or it could be personal preference, but 'one' seems to be referring
> to
> the user and it reads a bit strange for me. e.g.
>
> "Slave %d capabilities doesn't allow one to allocate additional
> queues"
> "hardware specifications that allow one to handle virtual memory"
> "Do not allow one to send packet if the maximum DMA.."
>
> as opposed to
>
> "Slave %d capabilities don't allow allocation of additional queues"
> "hardware specifications that allow handling of virtual memory"
> "Do not allow sending of a packet if the maximum DMA.."
You might be right - but the intent here is not to be correct, it's to
get the linter to leave me alone :-)
--
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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