[PATCH 1/2] gpio: dwapb: Use human understandable gpio numbering.

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Fri Jul 3 03:55:26 PDT 2015


On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 12:36:26PM +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:18:28AM +0100, Michael van der Westhuizen wrote:
> > The subject should be:
> >   gpio: dwapb: Use human understandable gpio numbering
> > Not:
> >   gpio: dwapb: Use human understandable gpio numbering.
> 
> Ok, I see.  I would call that dot a "period", not a full-stop.
> 
> Must be a British thing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop

says that '.' is a period in both American and British English, but when
used at the end of a sentence, the period is called a "full stop" in both.
(A full stop is a period used to end a sentence.)

It also says that in British English, '.' used elsewhere has also become
known as a "full stop" (I regard that as incorrect, despite myself being
British - it's a dilution of terms, and we'd now be in need of a new term
to describe the '.' at the end of a sentence because of this.)

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