From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:05:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125160524.102a2b3a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227656953.18268.13.camel@pc-fernando>
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:49:13 -0200
Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Since you started the thread, I feel less guilty to talk about the
> existence of tons of another kind of typo spread around the kernel
> sources: null statements created by duplicated semi-colons at the end of
> statements. Something like foo();;
We should just fix those.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-26 0:05 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
2008-11-25 23:49 ` Fernando Carrijo
2008-11-26 0:05 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-11-26 0:42 ` Fernando Carrijo
2008-11-26 8:48 ` Coly Li
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