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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>,
	Boaz Harrosh <ooo@electrozaur.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ore: fix spelling mistake: "Multples" -> "multiples"
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 16:21:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1522279274.2210.15.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180328230705.28145-1-colin.king@canonical.com>

On Thu, 2018-03-29 at 00:07 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
> 
> Trivial fix to spelling mistake in ORE_ERR error message text and
> make it all lowercase.

thanks and more trivially:

> diff --git a/fs/exofs/ore.c b/fs/exofs/ore.c
[]
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ int ore_verify_layout(unsigned total_comps, struct ore_layout *layout)
>  	}
>  	if (0 != (layout->stripe_unit & ~PAGE_MASK)) {
>  		ORE_ERR("Stripe Unit(0x%llx)"
> -			  " must be Multples of PAGE_SIZE(0x%lx)\n",
> +			  " must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE(0x%lx)\n",

"a multiple" might be more intelligible than "multiples"

It would be a more common usage too.

$ git grep -i "\".*multiples" | wc -l
10
$ git grep -i "\".*a multiple" | wc -l
62

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-28 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-28 23:07 [PATCH] ore: fix spelling mistake: "Multples" -> "multiples" Colin King
2018-03-28 23:21 ` Joe Perches [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-04-22 12:48 Colin King
2017-04-23  9:37 ` Boaz Harrosh
2017-04-24  0:08   ` Joe Perches

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