English language grammar does not allow usage
of the word "allows" directly followed by an
infinitive, declaring constructs like "something
allows to do somestuff" un-grammatical. Often
it is possible to just insert "one" between "allows"
and "to" to make the construct grammatical, but
usually it is better to re-phrase the statement.
This patch tries to fix 3 examples of "allows to"
usage in qemu doc, but does not address comments
in the code with similar constructs. It also adds
missing "the" in the same line.
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru>
---
v2: catch one more occurence of the same construct
in qemu-options.hx, in vnc encodings section. This
statement may need rewriting which I don't provide
in this patch, which just fixes the grammar.
qemu-doc.texi | 2 +-
qemu-options.hx | 5 +++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi
index e6e20eb..88ec9bb 100644
--- a/qemu-doc.texi
+++ b/qemu-doc.texi
@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ In this case, the block device must be exported using
qemu-nbd:
qemu-nbd --socket=/tmp/my_socket my_disk.qcow2
@end example
-The use of qemu-nbd allows to share a disk between several guests:
+The use of qemu-nbd allows sharing of a disk between several guests:
@example
qemu-nbd --socket=/tmp/my_socket --share=2 my_disk.qcow2
@end example
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 2d33815..3a7cc8f 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -444,7 +444,8 @@ This option defines the type of the media: disk or cdrom.
@item cyls=@var{c},heads=@var{h},secs=@var{s}[,trans=@var{t}]
These options have the same definition as they have in @option{-hdachs}.
@item snapshot=@var{snapshot}
-@var{snapshot} is "on" or "off" and allows to enable snapshot for given drive
(see @option{-snapshot}).
+@var{snapshot} is "on" or "off" and controls snapshot mode for the given drive
+(see @option{-snapshot}).
@item cache=@var{cache}
@var{cache} is "none", "writeback", "unsafe", "directsync" or "writethrough"
and controls how the host cache is used to access block data.
@item aio=@var{aio}
@@ -1242,7 +1243,7 @@ Disable adaptive encodings. Adaptive encodings are
enabled by default.
An adaptive encoding will try to detect frequently updated screen regions,
and send updates in these regions using a lossy encoding (like JPEG).
This can be really helpful to save bandwidth when playing videos. Disabling
-adaptive encodings allows to restore the original static behavior of encodings
+adaptive encodings restores the original static behavior of encodings
like Tight.
@item share=[allow-exclusive|force-shared|ignore]
--
1.7.10.4
