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authorWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>2018-11-19 14:02:45 +0300
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2018-11-20 19:30:43 +0300
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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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@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ The target is named "raid" and it accepts the following parameters:
[data_offset <sectors>]
This option value defines the offset into each data device
where the data starts. This is used to provide out-of-place
- reshaping space to avoid writing over data whilst
+ reshaping space to avoid writing over data while
changing the layout of stripes, hence an interruption/crash
may happen at any time without the risk of losing data.
E.g. when adding devices to an existing raid set during