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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] cmdline: Hide "debug" from /proc/cmdline
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Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:
> On 05/19/2014 01:11 AM, Diego Viola wrote:
>> I mean "e.g.:" is wrong, it should be e.g. or e.g.,
>
> I don't see that in the wikipedia page.  Are you basing that on
> "in this usage it is sometimes followed by a comma, depending on style."?
>
> I don't see a problem with the colon, since the quoted phrase has some
> conditions in it, like "sometimes" and "depending".  Colons are often used
> to delimit a list or an example, but I'll leave it up to Rusty.

OH NO, it's already been pushed into my modules-next git tree!!

Deepest regrets,
Rusty.