[PATCH modular 2/3] Fix spelling.

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Oct 5 01:55:38 PDT 2010


On Mon, Oct  4, 2010 at 21:00:13 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> >> From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner at gmail.com>
> >>  build_driver_input() {
> >> -    # Some drivers are only buildable on some OS'es
> >> +    # Some drivers can only be processed on some OS'es
> >
> > "can only be processed" is different from "are only buildable".  The
> > former is nonsensical, and the later is correct.
> 
> One of the many possible things the "build.sh" script can do is
> _build_ a module/component item. Apart from that one operation it can
> perform dozens of other operations on every module/component item,
> none of which constitute building. If I perform the following:
> 
> $ util/modular/build.sh $PREFIX --cmd "git pull"
> 
> Would you consider it an example of having built every
> module/component? It isn't strictly correct anymore to say the only
> thing build.sh can do is build items. "can only be processed" is a
> more general and correct phrase to explain the operation of build.sh.
> 
> Although, since it's not strictly a spelling correction, the two
> should probably be submitted as separate patches.

You can do git pull on any OS, the only thing you can't do everywhere is
build the driver.

Cheers,
Julien


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