Re: [PATCH] Documentation/PCI: fix spelling mistake in boot-interrupts

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sat Dec 23 2023 - 14:28:23 EST


Hi,

On 12/23/23 10:44, attreyee-muk wrote:
> Correct to “re-enabled” from “reenabled”.
>
> Signed-off-by: Attreyee Mukherjee <tintinm2017@xxxxxxxxx>

Is "reenabled" confusing? I don't have a problem with it, but
one web page [1] says that it's OK to use "re-" if not having
the hyphen can be confusing.

[1] https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/hyphens/hyphens-with-the-prefix-re/

OTOH, some web sites say the "reenable" is OK, at least as an
alternative spelling.

Thanks.

> ---
> Documentation/PCI/boot-interrupts.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/PCI/boot-interrupts.rst b/Documentation/PCI/boot-interrupts.rst
> index 2ec70121bfca..931077bb0953 100644
> --- a/Documentation/PCI/boot-interrupts.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/PCI/boot-interrupts.rst
> @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Conditions
> ==========
>
> The use of threaded interrupts is the most likely condition to trigger
> -this problem today. Threaded interrupts may not be reenabled after the IRQ
> +this problem today. Threaded interrupts may not be re-enabled after the IRQ
> handler wakes. These "one shot" conditions mean that the threaded interrupt
> needs to keep the interrupt line masked until the threaded handler has run.
> Especially when dealing with high data rate interrupts, the thread needs to

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