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Date:      Sat, 18 Apr 1998 15:27:39 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        des@FreeBSD.ORG, peter@netplex.com.au
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/dpt dpt_control.c src/sys/gnu/ext2fs...
Message-ID:  <199804180527.PAA08431@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>"Dag-Erling C. Sm\xf8rgrav" wrote:
>> des         1998/04/17 15:37:20 PDT
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/dev/dpt          dpt_control.c 
>>     sys/gnu/ext2fs       COPYRIGHT.INFO ext2_alloc.c ext2_vnops.c 
>[..]
>>     sys/ufs/ufs          ufs_vnops.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Seventy-odd "its" / "it's" typos in comments fixed as per kern/6108.
>
>What the hell???  I don't call this "fixing typos", as far as I can tell, 
>most of these changes have broken the correct usage.

I didn't notice any incorrect ones.

>eg:  here, we are talking about the device's softc:
>+++ dpt_control.c       1998/03/23 10:49:01
>@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
> 
> /**
>  * Given a minor device number,
>- * return the pointer to it's softc structure
>+ * return the pointer to its softc structure
>  */
> 
> static INLINE dpt_softc_t *

The change is correct.  

You get this wrong so often that I am tempted to reply with a spelling
flame :-).

>eg: here we are talking about the card's EEROM.
>+++ if_ed.c     1998/03/23 11:05:46
>@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@
> #endif
>        DELAY(100);
>        outb(sc->asic_addr + ED_WD_MSR, inb(sc->asic_addr + ED_WD_MSR) & ~ED_WD_
>MSR_RST);
>-       /* wait in the case this card is reading it's EEROM */
>+       /* wait in the case this card is reading its EEROM */
>        DELAY(5000);
> 
>        sc->vendor = ED_VENDOR_WD_SMC;
>
>And so on...

This change is correct too.

>Just because a PR is submitted, it doesn't mean it's right.  If they were 
>always right, there would be an automatic patch application process on PR 
>submission.

Most submissions in PRs (and elsehwere) have style and spelling bugs on
almost every line, but this one seems to be an exception :-).

Bruce

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