From: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
To: Kevin Lourenco <klourencodev@gmail.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, david@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix minor spelling mistakes in comments
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:56:25 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251220035626.44647-1-sj@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFveykMG1Qg=kG27y82PfH_prC5Jp=CTa_6Wttxu1cPkfzv9=A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:49:27 +0100 Kevin Lourenco <klourencodev@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi SJ,
>
> I think you’re right — the wording there is probably not correct. If
> anything, I would be more inclined to use “the next step is”
> (singular), since there is only one alignment step following the start
> gap adjustment.
>
> That said, I intentionally limited this patch to clear typos. While
> going through mm/, I did notice a number of grammatical issues in
> comments, but I chose to ignore them to keep the scope focused cause
> some typos actually made me wonder whether they were kernel-specific
> terminology or just misspellings (e.g. “sinze boot”).
>
> So I’d prefer to keep this patch dedicated to obvious typos only, and
> leave grammar cleanups for future patches.
That makes sense to me :)
>
> Thanks a lot for the review!
My pleasure!
Thanks,
SJ
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-18 15:09 [PATCH] mm: fix minor spelling mistakes in comments klourencodev
2025-12-20 2:27 ` SeongJae Park
2025-12-20 3:49 ` Kevin Lourenco
2025-12-20 3:56 ` SeongJae Park [this message]
2025-12-21 11:17 ` David Hildenbrand (Red Hat)
2026-01-14 14:10 ` Lorenzo Stoakes
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