[PATCH] staging: comedi: Fix typo in staging/comedi

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Thu Jun 27 13:25:35 UTC 2013


[Originally posted 2013-06-24.  Reposting to new driverdev-devel list.]

On 2013-06-23 16:09, Masanari Iida wrote:
> Correct spelling typo in printk and comment
> within staging/comedi.
>
> Singed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7 at gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/APCI1710_Tor.c | 8 ++++----
>   drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/addi_common.h  | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/APCI1710_Tor.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/APCI1710_Tor.c
> index 0b79531..8ca3d09 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/APCI1710_Tor.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data/APCI1710_Tor.c
> @@ -128,9 +128,9 @@ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
>   |                     -5: The selected PCI input clock is wrong              |
>   |                     -6: Timing unit selection is wrong                     |
>   |                     -7: Base timing selection is wrong                     |
> -|                     -8: You can not used the 40MHz clock selection wich    |
> +|                     -8: You can not used the 40MHz clock selection with    |
>   |                         this board                                         |
> -|                     -9: You can not used the 40MHz clock selection wich    |
> +|                     -9: You can not used the 40MHz clock selection with    |
>   |                         this TOR version                                   |
>   +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>   */
> @@ -807,10 +807,10 @@ static int i_APCI1710_InsnConfigInitTorCounter(struct comedi_device *dev,
>   								}
>   							} else {
>   			     /**************************************************************/
> -								/* You can not used the 40MHz clock selection wich this board */
> +								/* You can not used the 40MHz clock selection with this board */
>   			     /**************************************************************/
>
> -								DPRINTK("You can not used the 40MHz clock selection wich this board\n");
> +								DPRINTK("You can not used the 40MHz clock selection with this board\n");
>   								i_ReturnValue =
>   									-8;
>   							}

You could fix the grammatical error at the same time.  The past tense 
"used" should be replaced with the present tense "use" in order to make 
sense.  Also, the contraction "cannot" is much more common than "can 
not".  E.g.: "You cannot use X with Y."

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