svn commit: r366662 - head/sbin/devmatch

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:16:23AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 11:50 PM Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 05:32:00AM +0000, Warner Losh wrote:
> > > New Revision: 366662
> > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/366662
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   devmatch: First appeared in 12.0
> > >
> > >   Document that devmatch first appeared in FreeBSD 12.0.
> > >   Also can't -> can not. But it doesn't help the sentence much.
> > >
> > > ...
> > > @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Parse and use a standard NOMATCH event from
> > >  for matching instead of searching the device tree.
> > >  .It Fl u Fl -unbound
> > >  Attempt to produce a list of those drivers with PNP info whose driver
> > > -tables with that PNP info can't be found.
> > > +tables with that PNP info can not be found.
> >
> > Are you sure you've really meant "can not" and not "cannot" here?
> 
> They are variants of the same word (though it seems the one word
> variationis more common here)

No, they're not*, examples of "can not" usage:

- We can not only build the house, we can also sell it for a profit.
- Maybe I can not worry about this for a few days.

> the whole sentence is a trainwreck, though, and I should have just
> completely rewritten it.

I do agree. :-)

./danfe

*) https://grammar.yourdictionary.com/vs/cannot-vs-can-not-vs-cant-differences-explained.html