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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:53:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125145308.8633bf4a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <492AE7ED.8040304@suse.de>

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:44:13 +0800
Coly Li <coyli@suse.de> wrote:

> When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull". After doing grep "successfull "
> in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally --  great minds always think alike  :)

Mutter.  I have a super-strict (lol) policy of "I don't take patches
which fix typos/spellos in comments", because we have so many such
errors, and I'd get buried in silly patches.  But I do take patches
which fix documentation and user-visible printks, etc.

>  Documentation/hwmon/abituguru-datasheet   |    4 ++--
>  Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt  |    4 ++--
>  arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.h |    2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c        |    2 +-
>  drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/debuglib.h    |    2 +-
>  drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/os_4bri.c     |    2 +-
>  drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/os_bri.c      |    2 +-
>  drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/os_pri.c      |    2 +-
>  drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c                    |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/dma.c          |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c    |    2 +-
>  drivers/s390/block/dasd_3990_erp.c        |    2 +-
>  drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h             |    2 +-
>  drivers/s390/char/tape_3590.c             |    2 +-
>  drivers/s390/cio/cio.c                    |    2 +-
>  drivers/s390/cio/qdio_main.c              |    2 +-
>  fs/ext4/extents.c                         |    2 +-
>  fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c                        |    4 ++--
>  net/sctp/auth.c                           |    2 +-

This patch sneakily mixed the two up, so I merged it ;)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-25 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-24 17:44 [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2 Coly Li
2008-11-24 17:40 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-11-25 22:53 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-11-25 23:49   ` Fernando Carrijo
2008-11-26  0:05     ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-26  0:42       ` Fernando Carrijo
2008-11-26  8:48   ` Coly Li

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