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From: Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@pengutronix.de>
To: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
Cc: distrokit@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [DistroKit] [PATCH] doc: replace "copy onto" by "write to" to prevent confusion
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:15:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZJGmh3lUKDJIs2Ko@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230331085152.2037767-1-rhi@pengutronix.de>

On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 10:51:52AM +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:
> "Copy" could be misunderstood as "use cp (on the file system level)",
> which will not lead to the intended results, i.e. writing to the device
> directly (e.g. using dd).
> 
> Furthermore, using "write onto" [1] instead of "write to" [2] feels
> unnatural here – as if writing something on top of another. Use "to"
> instead.
> 
> [1]: about 460.000 Google results
> [2]: about 146.000.000 Google results
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roland Hieber <rhi@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  doc/hardware_v7a_beaglebone_black.rst | 2 +-
>  doc/hardware_v7a_beaglebone_white.rst | 2 +-
>  doc/hardware_v7a_noneon_sama5d3.rst   | 2 +-
>  doc/hardware_v7a_raspi23.rst          | 6 +++---
>  doc/hardware_v7a_riot.rst             | 2 +-
>  doc/hardware_v7a_sama5d2.rst          | 2 +-
>  doc/hardware_v7a_udoo_neo.rst         | 2 +-
>  doc/hardware_v8a_espressobin.rst      | 2 +-
>  doc/hardware_v8a_rock3a.rst           | 6 +++---
>  9 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Applied to next.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-20 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-31  8:51 Roland Hieber
2023-05-10 13:40 ` Roland Hieber
2023-06-20 13:15 ` Robert Schwebel [this message]

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