From: "Mark Pearson" <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: rakuram <rakuram.e96@gmail.com>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
"Derek J . Clark" <derekjohn.clark@gmail.com>,
"Armin Wolf" <W_Armin@gmx.de>, "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org"
<platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
skhan@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/wmi: Fix Typo in lenovo-wmi-gamezone
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:23:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d218ba7-71ba-4dfe-9a6f-a1997345c35a@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <444b64a7-631e-4acf-d2c8-2f0acd379d61@linux.intel.com>
Hi Ilpo,
On Mon, Sep 15, 2025, at 6:32 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2025, Mark Pearson wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 17, 2025, at 1:06 PM, rakuram wrote:
>> > Fixed the below typo error
>> >
>> > freqency ==> frequency
>> > in Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-gamezone.rst
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: rakuram <rakuram.e96@gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> > Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-gamezone.rst | 2 +-
>> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-gamezone.rst
>> > b/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-gamezone.rst
>> > index 997263e51a7d..22040250a97d 100644
>> > --- a/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-gamezone.rst
>> > +++ b/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-gamezone.rst
>> > @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ data using the `bmfdec
>> > <https://github.com/pali/bmfdec>`_ utility:
>> > [WmiDataId(1), read, Description("P-State ID.")] uint32 PStateID;
>> > [WmiDataId(2), read, Description("CLOCK ID.")] uint32 ClockID;
>> > [WmiDataId(3), read, Description("Default value.")] uint32
>> > defaultvalue;
>> > - [WmiDataId(4), read, Description("OC Offset freqency.")] uint32
>> > OCOffsetFreq;
>> > + [WmiDataId(4), read, Description("OC Offset frequency.")] uint32
>> > OCOffsetFreq;
>> > [WmiDataId(5), read, Description("OC Min offset value.")] uint32
>> > OCMinOffset;
>> > [WmiDataId(6), read, Description("OC Max offset value.")] uint32
>> > OCMaxOffset;
>> > [WmiDataId(7), read, Description("OC Offset Scale.")] uint32
>> > OCOffsetScale;
>> > --
>> > 2.43.0
>>
>> Looks good to me.
>> Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>
>
> Hi,
>
> Isn't the typo in the original interface as well? I'm not very keen in
> accepting this kind of patches as this part is not really user
> documentation to begin with.
>
I haven't had a chance to double check - but it's kinda bad that we had that typo in the original implementation to be honest. I can ask to get that fixed, but it will likely take a long time for something minor.
I defer to you on the preference for kernel documentation - I suspect we'll get a bunch of these though (part of the 'getting started to contributing to the kernel' is always typos and documentation right?).
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-15 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-17 17:06 [PATCH] Documentation/wmi: Fix Typo in lenovo-wmi-gamezone rakuram
2025-08-20 14:37 ` Mark Pearson
2025-09-15 10:32 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2025-09-15 18:23 ` Mark Pearson [this message]
2025-09-15 21:54 ` Armin Wolf
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