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From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Charles Clément" <caratorn@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kernel-janitors@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] mm: spelling error in a comment
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:58:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46118A90.4050708@student.ltu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070402152719.e7b622ba.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:06:36 +0200 Charles Clément wrote:
>
>   
>> Fix spelling in a comment in mm/slab.c.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Charles Clément <caratorn@gmail.com>
>>     
>
> Alexey can grab this if he wants to (or Adrian could),
> but here's what Andrew Morton has to say about such patches:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitor-discuss&m\x117360826232574&w=2
>
> "...I prefer not to do spello and grammaro
> fixes, unless they're in something user-visible: a printk or documentation.
> Simply because there would be no end to it."
>
>   
Also, regardless if it is a comment or not, I think it may be a good 
idea to put such uncommon mistakes in KJ's wiki under "Spelling 
mistakes" and let it all be taken care of once in a while.
(http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Spelling_mistakes)

Richard Knutsson

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From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Charles Clément" <caratorn@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, kernel-janitors@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] mm: spelling error in a comment
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:58:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46118A90.4050708@student.ltu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070402152719.e7b622ba.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:06:36 +0200 Charles Clement wrote:
>
>   
>> Fix spelling in a comment in mm/slab.c.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Charles Clement <caratorn@gmail.com>
>>     
>
> Alexey can grab this if he wants to (or Adrian could),
> but here's what Andrew Morton has to say about such patches:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitor-discuss&m=117360826232574&w=2
>
> "...I prefer not to do spello and grammaro
> fixes, unless they're in something user-visible: a printk or documentation.
> Simply because there would be no end to it."
>
>   
Also, regardless if it is a comment or not, I think it may be a good 
idea to put such uncommon mistakes in KJ's wiki under "Spelling 
mistakes" and let it all be taken care of once in a while.
(http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Spelling_mistakes)

Richard Knutsson

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-02 22:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-02 21:06 [KJ] [PATCH] mm: spelling error in a comment Charles Clément
2007-04-02 21:06 ` Charles Clément
2007-04-02 22:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-02 22:27   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-02 22:58   ` Richard Knutsson [this message]
2007-04-02 22:58     ` Richard Knutsson
2007-04-03 10:02     ` Charles Clément
2007-04-03 10:02       ` Charles Clément
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2007-04-02 14:51 Charles Clément

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