From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:07:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:07:32 -0500 Received: from noodles.codemonkey.org.uk ([213.152.47.19]:17879 "EHLO noodles.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:07:32 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:13:20 +0000 From: Dave Jones To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Spelling fixes for consistent, dependent, persistent Message-ID: <20030209151320.GB12877@codemonkey.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200302090902.h1992KJ05999@hera.kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302090902.h1992KJ05999@hera.kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:11:08PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote: > ChangeSet 1.999, 2003/02/07 08:11:08-08:00, elenstev@mesatop.com > > [PATCH] Spelling fixes for consistent, dependent, persistent > > This fixes the following common misspellings and their variants. > > consistant -> consistent > dependant -> dependent > persistant -> persistent > > Can we hold off on tree-wide 'corrections' like this until we at least get closer to 2.6-test ? Doing these at this point in time really screws over a lot of out-of-tree patches. Oh, and Dependant is an allowed variation btw.[1][2] Dave [1] http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=dependant [2] http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Dependant -- | Dave Jones. http://www.codemonkey.org.uk | SuSE Labs