Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cpu for v5.16

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 03:44:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> "a.o."? Is that a common German shorthand, possibly anglicized?

Haha, exactly. :-)

> I'm assuming - and rewrote it - that it stands for "or similar".

Apparently, the "proper" thing to write is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/i.a.

> Possibly "among other" aka "inter alia"? Very occasionally shortened
> "i.a.", although "e.g." is the _much_ more common form of much the
> same thing.

Yeah, I saw "e.g." being suggested also for "among others".

> Never seen that "a.o." thing.

Sorry about that - I'll make sure to avoid such misguided abbreviations
in the future. We have enough confusion as it is - no reason for me to
add more.

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