From: Josh Law <hlcj1234567@gmail.com>
To: andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
Subject: [PATCH] lib/uuid: fix typo "reversion" to "revision" in comment
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 16:12:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260306161250.2811500-1-objecting@objecting.org> (raw)
Fix a typo in __uuid_gen_common() where "reversion" (meaning to revert)
was used instead of "revision" when describing the UUID variant field.
Signed-off-by: Josh Law <objecting@objecting.org>
---
lib/uuid.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/uuid.c b/lib/uuid.c
index e8543c668dc7..128a51f1879b 100644
--- a/lib/uuid.c
+++ b/lib/uuid.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(generate_random_guid);
static void __uuid_gen_common(__u8 b[16])
{
get_random_bytes(b, 16);
- /* reversion 0b10 */
+ /* revision 0b10 */
b[8] = (b[8] & 0x3F) | 0x80;
}
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-06 16:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-06 16:12 Josh Law [this message]
2026-03-06 19:00 ` [PATCH] lib/uuid: fix typo "reversion" to "revision" in comment Andy Shevchenko
2026-03-06 19:03 ` Josh Law
2026-03-06 19:07 ` Andy Shevchenko
2026-03-06 19:15 ` Andrew Morton
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