Re: [PATCH 09/10] coresched: reduce excessive whitespace and verbosity in usage text

Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Apr 2025 11:55:12 +0200

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.util-linux
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Op 03-04-2025 om 10:11 schreef Karel Zak:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2025 at 11:44:42AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
>> -	fputsln(_("Manage core scheduling cookies for tasks."), stdout);
>> +	fputsln(_("Manage core-scheduling cookies for tasks."), stdout);

>> -	fputsln(_(" get                      retrieve the core scheduling cookie of a PID"),
>> +	fputsln(_(" get      retrieve the core-scheduling cookie of a PID"), stdout);


> There is a comment from Thijs that kernel docs does not use hyphen, it
> means "core scheduling" rather than "core-scheduling". Maybe it would
> be better to follow kernel.

When speaking of the scheduling itself, it is indeed "core scheduling",
but when using this compound word as an adjective, then it is much
clearer to hyphenate it, to avoid the impression that it is talking
about a _core_, deep, central scheduling cookie.

> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/hw-vuln/core-scheduling.html

In that first paragraph, I would write "Core-scheduling support...".

https://www.grammarly.com/blog/punctuation-capitalization/hyphen-with-compound-modifiers/


Benno

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