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Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"

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Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:

  | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
  | formal, and "while" is the common word.
  |
  | [...]
  |
  | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
  | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
  | uses?

dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.

Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".

Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Will Deacon
2018-11-19 11:02:45 +00:00
committed by Jonathan Corbet
parent 48c465d23d
commit 806654a966
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ properties:
8. The array can iterated over. The objects will not necessarily come out in
key order.
9. The array can be iterated over whilst it is being modified, provided the
9. The array can be iterated over while it is being modified, provided the
RCU readlock is being held by the iterator. Note, however, under these
circumstances, some objects may be seen more than once. If this is a
problem, the iterator should lock against modification. Objects will not
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ properties:
10. Objects in the array can be looked up by means of their index key.
11. Objects can be looked up whilst the array is being modified, provided the
11. Objects can be looked up while the array is being modified, provided the
RCU readlock is being held by the thread doing the look up.
The implementation uses a tree of 16-pointer nodes internally that are indexed
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ The function will return ``0`` if successful and ``-ENOMEM`` if there wasn't
enough memory.
It is possible for other threads to iterate over or search the array under
the RCU read lock whilst this function is in progress. The caller should
the RCU read lock while this function is in progress. The caller should
lock exclusively against other modifiers of the array.