On Sat, 17 May 2008 07:33:36 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Saturday 17 May 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > I'd rather spell it "16-bit", that's what developers are used to I
> > think.
> 
> ISTR some "how 2 right gud inglish" style guide, maybe the
> Univerity of Chicago one (or Turabian, or Strunk and White),
> saying to use the word form, not the digit form, except when
> the text is really about numbers/dates.  Certainly *mixing*
> two forms would be bad, and having only one digit-format
> number is a degenerate case of mixing.  (Ergo my scribble.)

Apparently the kernel developers don't give a damn to whatever style
guide you read. "16 bit" overrules "sixteen bit" by 2858 to 3 in the
current kernel tree ;)

> > Please send an updated patch, or if you prefer I can adjust it myself.
> 
> It'll go faster if you make these last changes ...

Done.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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