Hi. On Monday 20 March 2006 22:50, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I'm not 100% sure with my english, but this seems wrong... > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[email protected]> > > diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index c2c85bc..8fd6d4e 100644 > --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches > @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ NO!!!! No more huge patch bombs to linux > Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle > <http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/CodingStyle> > > -Linus Torvald's mail on the canonical patch format: > +Linus Torvalds' mail on the canonical patch format: > <http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183> > -- > Last updated on 17 Nov 2005. I read all the other messages, and still felt I needed to reply :). This patch is correct. If a name ends in an s, the possessive form simply gets an apostrophe. Plurals are irrelevant to the discussion, but I'll answer another part of the thread too. If you wanted to say that something belonged to Linus and his family, you'd still do Torvalds', and get the fact that Torvalds was in the plural from other words in the context (if possible). Regards, Nigel
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