Re: [discuss] [PATCH] spelling fixes: arch/x86_64/

Alan Cox
2007-05-13T13:45:12Z

> Essentially all commonly used English words which start out with hyphens
> loose them over time. It starts out with typos and progresses until the
> non-hyphenated form becomes the exclusively used form. It does seem that
> re-enable → reenable is occurring, based on those search hits.

Re-enable is definitely "more correct".

> Andi> Similar with upto.
>
> I’ve a *much* harder time agreeing with «upto» in place of «up to».
> That should be treated as a typo in need of fixing.

The dictionary agrees.

Alan