Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: unisys: Documentation: Fix for longline and typo in doc

[Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 18 Mar 2020 06:03:27 +0530
R Veera Kumar <vkor@vkten.in> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:00:44AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Mar 2020 11:01:51 +0530
> > R Veera Kumar <vkor@vkten.in> wrote:
> >   
> > > Fix longline and a typo in documentation.
> > > Found using checkpatch.pl.
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ NOT covered in this document:
> > >  2.1.1. Overview
> > >  ---------------
> > >  
> > > -The visorbus driver handles the virtual busses on which all of the virtual
> > > +The visorbus driver handles the virtual buses on which all of the virtual  
> > 
> > This is not a typo, both spellings are correct and you are anyway
> > keeping a "busses" in the other section. We also
> > have drivers/i2c/busses/. If checkpatch is reporting this, I think it
> > should be fixed.
> >   
> 
> English US spells busses.
> English Uk spells buses.

Buses is nowadays the prevalent spelling also in AmE:
	https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/plural-of-bus

but that doesn't make the other spelling a typo.

> The dictionary database used by checkpatch.pl, codespell is the problem.

I have two observations:

- codespell is open source

- you are supposed to check what tools do, otherwise tools would be
  able to do that by themselves. Indeed, I'm assuming you were tricked
  by it, and that's understandable -- but that doesn't necessarily make
  them "the problem".

-- 
Stefano