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Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"

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Whilst making an unrelated change to some Documentation, Linus sayeth:

  | Afaik, even in Britain, "whilst" is unusual and considered more
  | formal, and "while" is the common word.
  |
  | [...]
  |
  | Can we just admit that we work with computers, and we don't need to
  | use þe eald Englisc spelling of words that most of the world never
  | uses?

dictionary.com refers to the word as "Chiefly British", which is
probably an undesirable attribute for technical documentation.

Replace all occurrences under Documentation/ with "while".

Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
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Will Deacon 2018-11-19 11:02:45 +00:00 • committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ or increment/decrement function.
Note that switching branches results in some locks being taken,
particularly the CPU hotplug lock (in order to avoid races against
CPUs being brought in the kernel whilst the kernel is getting
CPUs being brought in the kernel while the kernel is getting
patched). Calling the static key API from within a hotplug notifier is
thus a sure deadlock recipe. In order to still allow use of the
functionnality, the following functions are provided: