Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Documentation: x86: Fix typos

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On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Tamara Diaconita wrote:

> Fix typos in x86 directory.
> Make documentation clear and grammatically correct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tamara Diaconita <diaconita.tamara@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/x86/boot.txt | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
> index 5e9b826..694979a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/x86/boot.txt
> @@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ Type:		read
>  Offset/size:	0x20e/2
>  Protocol:	2.00+
>
> -  If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a NUL-terminated
> +  If set to a nonzero value, contains a pointer to a NULL-terminated
>    human-readable kernel version number string, less 0x200.  This can
>    be used to display the kernel version to the user.  This value
>    should be less than (0x200*setup_sects).
> @@ -1105,7 +1105,7 @@ address of the struct boot_params.
>
>  **** EFI HANDOVER PROTOCOL
>
> -This protocol allows boot loaders to defer initialisation to the EFI
> +This protocol allows boot loaders to defer initialization to the EFI

This is an American vs British English issue.  I don't know if the Linux
kernel prefers one or the other.

julia

>  boot stub. The boot loader is required to load the kernel/initrd(s)
>  from the boot media and jump to the EFI handover protocol entry point
>  which is hdr->handover_offset bytes from the beginning of
> --
> 2.9.3
>
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