+ scripts-spellingtxt-keep-british-spelling-for-initalise.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

+ scripts-spellingtxt-keep-british-spelling-for-initalise.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: scripts/spelling.txt: keep British spelling for "initalise"
has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
     scripts-spellingtxt-keep-british-spelling-for-initalise.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/scripts-spellingtxt-keep-british-spelling-for-initalise.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
Subject: scripts/spelling.txt: keep British spelling for "initalise"
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 14:43:24 +0530

These are the only two entries in the file that map a British spelling to
an American one:

  initalised||initialized
  initalise||initialize

doc-guide/checkpatch.rst asks that British and American spellings be left
alone, so correcting the missing "i" should not also change the variety of
English.  Following checkpatch here silently rewrites "initalised" to
"initialized" in files that otherwise use British forms; arch/arm64 alone
has 58 uses of "initialised" against 132 of "initialized", so both are
clearly in use.

Map them to the British forms instead, so the misspelling is still caught
while the spelling variety is left to the author.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260907091324.32211-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 scripts/spelling.txt |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/scripts/spelling.txt~scripts-spellingtxt-keep-british-spelling-for-initalise
+++ a/scripts/spelling.txt
@@ -872,8 +872,8 @@ infromation||information
 ingore||ignore
 inheritence||inheritance
 inital||initial
-initalised||initialized
-initalise||initialize
+initalised||initialised
+initalise||initialise
 initalized||initialized
 initalize||initialize
 initation||initiation
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from hemanth.selam@gmail.com are

selftests-mm-remove-the-local-pkey_unrestricted-fallback.patch
scripts-spellingtxt-keep-british-spelling-for-initalise.patch