From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
So-called \So"-called`\, a.
So named; called by such a name (but perhaps called thus with
doubtful propriety).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
so-called
adj : doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
[syn: {alleged(a)}, {supposed}]
My strong conviction is that widespread use of 'so gennant'
or 'sogennant' in German has led to the creeping misuse of
'so-called' in English (especially through technical writings).
In English, it would be better to use:
what is called
or a better translation of 'so gennant':
so named
Signed-off-by: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
In commit a144c6a6c9 ("PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested
when tasks are frozen") we not only printed a warning if somebody tried
to load the firmware when tasks are frozen - we also failed the load.
But that check was done before the check for built-in firmware, and then
when we disallowed usermode helpers during bootup (commit 288d5abec831:
"Boot up with usermodehelper disabled"), that actually means that
built-in modules can no longer load their firmware even if the firmware
is built in too. Which used to work, and some people depended on it for
the R100 driver.
So move the test for usermodehelper_is_disabled() down, to after
checking the built-in firmware.
This should fix:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40952
Reported-by: James Cloos <cloos@hjcloos.com>
Bisected-by: Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>
Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-31-rc3/i2c-fixes' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux:
i2c-nomadik: fix kerneldoc warning
Revert "i2c-omap: fix static suspend vs. runtime suspend"
i2c-nomadik: Do not use _interruptible_ variant call
There was a missing struct item in the kerneldoc, add it and fix
another pretty-printing formatting issue with a missing space.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
HID: wiimote: Add status and return request handlers
HID: wiimote: Add drm request
HID: wiimote: Register led class devices
HID: wiimote: Correctly call HID open/close callbacks
HID: wiimote: Simplify synchronization
HID: usbhid: Add support for SiGma Micro chip
HID: add support for new revision of Apple aluminum keyboard
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: ad714x - read the interrupt status registers in a row
Input: ad714x - use DMA-safe buffers for spi_write()
Input: ad714x - fix endianness issues
Input: ad714xx-spi - force SPI bus into the default 8-bit mode
Input: ep93xx_keypad - add missing include of linux/module.h
Input: tnetv107x-ts - add missing include of linux/module.h
Input: max11801_ts - correct license statement
Input: atmel_mxt_ts - report pressure information from the driver
Input: bcm5974 - Add support for newer MacBookPro8,2
Input: wacom - report id 3 returns 4 bytes of data
Input: wacom - add WAC_MSG_RETRIES define
Input: wacom - add support for the Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-660/K)
Input: tegra-kbc - correct call to input_free_device
Input: mpu3050 - correct call to input_free_device
Input: bcm5974 - add support for touchpads found in MacBookAir4,2
Input: mma8450 - fix module device table type
Input: remove CLOCK_TICK_RATE from analog joystick driver
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse:
fuse: check size of FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_ENTRY message
fuse: mark pages accessed when written to
fuse: delete dead .write_begin and .write_end aops
fuse: fix flock
fuse: fix non-ANSI void function notation
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (29 commits)
bridge: fix a possible net_device leak
net: Documentation: RFC 2553bis is now RFC 3493
atm: br2684: Fix oops due to skb->dev being NULL
ipv6: Fix ipv6_getsockopt for IPV6_2292PKTOPTIONS
net: netdev-features.txt update to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
vlan: reset headers on accel emulation path
forcedeth: call vlan_mode only if hw supports vlans
via-velocity: remove non-tagged packet filtering
bonding:reset backup and inactive flag of slave
net_sched: fix port mirror/redirect stats reporting
sit tunnels: propagate IPv6 transport class to IPv4 Type of Service
gianfar: reduce stack usage in gianfar_ethtool.c
net: minor update to Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
net: add missing entries to Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
gianfar: prevent buggy hw rx vlan tagging
net: sh_eth: Fix build by forgot including linux/interrupt.h
drivers/net/can/sja1000/plx_pci.c: eliminate double free
usbnet/cdc_ncm: Don't use stack variables for DMA
vmxnet3: Don't enable vlan filters in promiscuous mode.
iwlagn: sysfs couldn't find the priv pointer
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Michael Witten