Re: [PATCH] Staging: r8188eu: core: 'associcated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 09:09:10AM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On martedì 8 febbraio 2022 00:42:10 CET Leonardo Araujo wrote:
> > This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl warning:
> > 
> > CHECK: 'associcated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Leonardo Araujo <leonardo.aa88@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> "Staging: r8188eu: core: 'associated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?" 
> it's not the way patch subjects are created for inclusion in Linux.

I do not see anything wrong with this.  What do you think is not
acceptable?

> Please follow what is clearly described in the "Philosophy of Linux kernel 
> patches" document at https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy...

The in-kernel documentation describes this well also.

> "In patch descriptions and in the subject, it is common and preferable to use 
> present-tense, imperative language. Write as if you are telling git what to do 
> with your patch.".
> 
> It's not my job to accept or reject patches for this subsystem and I don't want 
> to tell you what to write but, if I were you, I'd send a v2 with a subject like 
> "Fix misspelled word in comments" (or something else similar to this subject).
> 
> Furthermore, please take note that the name of this subsystem is "staging" (it 
> is not "Staging").

Either is fine, I will not reject a change for an upper-case letter like
this.

> Decide by yourself whether or not the other two patches that you submitted this 
> morning have to be sent anew as v2 with due changes in the subjects.

I do not see a problem with this change at all, nothing needs to be
resubmitted.

greg k-h