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>
* 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
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
block: improve rq_affinity placement
blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
bsg-lib: add module.h include
cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
...
Update netdev-features.txt entry in 00-INDEX to incorporate
feedback by Michał Mirosław.
v2: restored tabs that were inadvertently changed to spaces in v1.
sorry for the error.
Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'docs-move' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs:
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: MSI -> MSIs
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert a comma
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: can -> could
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use `unknown ...' rather than `... know about.'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: may -> might
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert a comma
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: API -> function
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: , -> ;
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Move a sentence to another paragraph
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Insert `that'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Offset modifier with a comma, and insert `yet' for emphasis
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Put the `because' subordinate clause first
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Streamline some wording
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: `asked for' -> `requested'
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use present tense and streamline some wording
Docs: MSI-HOWTO: Use the subjunctive, and change `can' to `may'
The CONFIG_RELOCATABLE code tries to align the unpack destination to
the value of 'kernel_alignment' in the setup_hdr. If that's 0, it
tries to unpack to address 0, which in fact causes the gunzip code
to call 'error("Out of memory while allocating output buffer")'.
The bootloader (ie. the lguest Launcher in this case) should be doing
setting this field; the normal bzImage is 16M, we can use the same.
Reported-by: Stefanos Geraggelos <sgerag@cslab.ece.ntua.gr>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Remove the name of Sergey Kostyliov as maintainer of befs.
In the MAINTAINERS file, befs is orphaned.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt:
- add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced
- alphabetize the parameter restrictions list
- spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64"
- remove trailing whitespace
- use hyphen in 32-bit etc.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Dropping LSD (Linux Source Driver) since it hasn't been available
for a long time.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luis@debethencourt.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michael Witten