deregister?
I'm kind of curious; "deregister" is used quite often in the kernel:
pcmcia_deregister_clientpcmcia_deregister_erase_queuemisc_deregisteratm_dev_deregisteratm_proc_dev_deregisterusb_deregister_bususb_deregisterusb_serial_deregisterscsi_deregister_blocked_hostmatroxfb_dh_deregisterfb
Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in place of "unregister"?
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-- found in the .sig of Rob Riggs, [email protected]On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:10:49PM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
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Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in place of "unregister"?
I purpose that we fix this horrible spelling error right away and get it into 2.4.5! :)
(up yours binary-only module authors! :) )
Quoted 4 lines · Andres Salomon
Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in place of "unregister"?
Yes, we're all anti-american terrorists who plan to make the US economy collapse by inventing lots of new words which will have to be added to the dictionary, making the US economy unable to support the ever-growing dictionaries and ensuring the Americans will be unable to (learn to) spell, leaving them dead in the water if there's ever a linguistic war between them and the UK.
Cunning, isn't it?
cheers,
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Not to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in place of "unregister"?
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Yes, we're all anti-american terrorists who plan to make the US economy collapse by inventing lots of new words which will have to be added to the dictionary, making the US economy unable to support the ever-growing dictionaries and ensuring the Americans will be unable to (learn to) spell, leaving them
Americans can spell? Since when?
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dead in the water if there's ever a linguistic war between them and the UK.
Cunning, isn't it?
cheers,
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Well, at least you provided a reason. ;P That would be incredibly lame if the answer turned out to be, "The original author made a mistake, and no one cared enough to fix it. API users (who are constantly mixing up unregister and deregister) be damned."
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removed the floor under your bed." - Unix for Dummies, 2nd Edition
-- found in the .sig of Rob Riggs, [email protected]Quoted 3 lines · Andres Salomon
I'm kind of curious; "deregister" is used quite often in the kernel:
pcmcia_deregister_client
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matroxfb_dh_deregisterfbNot to mention in various comments and documentation. Deregister, according to www.m-w.com (and many other dictionaries), is not a word. Is there some sort of historical significance to this being used, in place of "unregister"?
Linux kernel source vs. the English language. One of them will have to bend...
let's get ready to rumble!
Now that it has been pointed out it will mildly irritate people (myself included) until it *is* corrected (I guess ignorance was bliss :-)
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