Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: fix spelling typos

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

"Mark Pearson" <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 18, 2026, at 12:56 PM, Yahya Toubali wrote:
>> Fix 'Minumum' -> 'Minimum' in lenovo-wmi-other.rst and
>> 'maintainance' -> 'maintenance' in housekeeping.rst.
>> These were flagged by checkpatch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yahya Toubali <yahya@yahyatoubali.me>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst        | 2 +-
>>  Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst | 2 +-
>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst 
>> b/Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst
>> index ccb0a88b9cb3..71ba5d86f249 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst
>> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ extreme workloads can't stand, such as in some DPDK 
>> usecases.
>> 
>>  The kernel work moved away by CPU isolation is commonly described as
>>  "housekeeping" because it includes ground work that performs cleanups,
>> -statistics maintainance and actions relying on them, memory release,
>> +statistics maintenance and actions relying on them, memory release,
>>  various deferrals etc...
>> 
>>  Sometimes housekeeping is just some unbound work (unbound workqueues,
>> diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst 
>> b/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst
>> index 011054d64eac..65cb78ef285a 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst
>> @@ -163,5 +163,5 @@ data using the `bmfdec 
>> <https://github.com/pali/bmfdec>`_ utility:
>>      [WmiDataId(1), read, Description("Mode.")] uint32 NumOfFans;
>>      [WmiDataId(2), read, Description("Fan ID."), 
>> WmiSizeIs("NumOfFans")] uint32 FanId[];
>>      [WmiDataId(3), read, Description("Maximum Fan Speed."), 
>> WmiSizeIs("NumOfFans")] uint32 FanMaxSpeed[];
>> -    [WmiDataId(4), read, Description("Minumum Fan Speed."), 
>> WmiSizeIs("NumOfFans")] uint32 FanMinSpeed[];
>> +    [WmiDataId(4), read, Description("Minimum Fan Speed."), 
>> WmiSizeIs("NumOfFans")] uint32 FanMinSpeed[];
>>    };
>
> The minumum fix has been proposed a few times already. It's a miss-spell that comes from the BIOS, so is deliberately wrong.
>
> That being said - I vote we correct it so that we stop getting patches that want to fix it.
> In the interests of not seeing it again:

Instead, why not add a line to the file saying that the BIOS actually
behaves that way?

Thanks,

jon