From: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation/arch: fix typo "initalised" in comment
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 10:09:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907043933.33452-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b7b77956-591f-4282-aaad-04c9f7899413@infradead.org>
Thanks for the pointer, and you are right to raise it - I checked and this
patch does fall foul of that rule.
The word in Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst is "zero-initalised", and
I changed it to "zero-initialized", which quietly moves the file from
British to American spelling. The minimal fix is "zero-initialised".
I followed checkpatch here, and checkpatch is following the dictionary:
scripts/spelling.txt:875:initalised||initialized
scripts/spelling.txt:874:initalise||initialize
Those are the only two entries in the file that map a British form to an
American one, and by the rule you quoted they should read
initalise||initialise
initalised||initialised
so that the misspelling is corrected without changing the variety of
English in the file. arch/arm64 currently has 58 uses of "initialised"
against 132 of "initialized", so both spellings are clearly in use there.
I will send a v2 that uses "zero-initialised". Would a separate patch
fixing those two spelling.txt entries be welcome, or is that better left
alone?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 4:39 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20260904105114.29474-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
2026-09-04 10:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] Documentation/arch: fix typo "initalised" in comment Hemanth Selam
2026-09-04 22:01 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-09-07 4:39 ` Hemanth Selam [this message]
2026-09-07 5:23 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-09-04 10:51 ` [PATCH 2/4] arm64: fix typos in comments Hemanth Selam
2026-09-04 10:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] selftests: arm64: fix typo "hander" in comment Hemanth Selam
2026-09-04 10:51 ` [PATCH 4/4] arm64: include: fix repeated word 'to' " Hemanth Selam
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