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

Karel Zak <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.util-linux
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On Thu, Apr 03, 2025 at 11:55:12AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> 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.

OK, merged :-)

    Karel

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