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From: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
To: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH RFC] checkpatch: fix TYPO_SPELLING check for words with apostrophe
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 05:05:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201126100558.GA7169@PWN> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201126094727.43265-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 03:17:27PM +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> checkpatch reports a false warning for some words containing an
> apostrophe.
> 
> A false positive is "doesn't". Occurrence of the word causes
> checkpatch to emit the following warning:
> 
> "WARNING: 'doesn'' may be misspelled - perhaps 'doesn't'?"
> 
> Check if any word character is present after the word boundary
> in such cases. If present, it means a subpart of the word has
> been matched and a warning should not be emitted.
> 
> Reported-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks for fixing it! Glad to see checkpatch is happy :)

FWIW, the patch is:
Tested-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs@gmail.com>

Thanks,
Peilin Ye

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-26 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-26  9:47 [Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH RFC] checkpatch: fix TYPO_SPELLING check for words with apostrophe Dwaipayan Ray
2020-11-26  9:59 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2020-11-26 10:07   ` Dwaipayan Ray
2020-11-26 10:05 ` Peilin Ye [this message]
2020-11-26 10:10   ` Dwaipayan Ray

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