From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, pekkas@netcore.fi,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] [IPv6] spelling fix in /proc: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/temp_prefered_lft
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:25:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1205976319.26345.20.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080319.135205.125229102.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 13:52 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:42:27 +0100
> > Here is a patch to fix all the spelling error (prefered -> preferred)
> I think this doesn't add any value.
> If the procfs file name has to remain the same, which it does,
> changing variable and macro names to be different will only
> cause merge conflicts and pain yet have no redeeming value.
I disagree. Proper spelling has value.
Misspelled words require additional time to read and parse.
Any change can cause merge conflicts.
A simple comment on the proc name use should be added though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-20 1:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-19 20:42 [PATCH] [RFC] [IPv6] spelling fix in /proc: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/temp_prefered_lft Benoit Boissinot
2008-03-19 20:52 ` David Miller
2008-03-19 23:17 ` Rick Jones
2008-03-19 23:53 ` David Miller
2008-03-20 1:25 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2008-03-20 1:56 ` David Miller
2008-03-20 9:00 ` Benoit Boissinot
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