[PATCH 0/11] Consolidation of Open Firmware routines

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed May 2 05:36:01 EST 2007


From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 13:17:42 +0200 (MEST)

> 
> On May 1 2007 01:51, David Miller wrote:
> >From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh at linux01.gwdg.de>
> >Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:30:02 +0200 (MEST)
> >
> >> but i'd kinda want drivers/openfirmware, even if it's a bit longer.
> >
> >So much for the unix sense of elegance in short names.
> >I think there is zero confusion about what "of" is.
> 
> A prepositional word in the English language, as
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/of tells me. And it's used quite often placed
> 2nd.
> Just see http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/03/028258

Stop this sillyness.

If it feels out of context, which "of" will here, people know
to consider it's probably an acronym of some kind.



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