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From: Like Xu <like.xu@linux.intel.com>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: add more typos to spelling.txt and sort
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:45:50 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f2a36dc4-fc66-97b9-cadb-ccd37e2b400a@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.21.1903151359480.8@nippy.intranet>

On 2019/3/15 11:07, Finn Thain wrote:
> 
> Does it makes sense to list every typo that is simply a transposition of
> characters or a character omitted? This file will become very large very
> quickly if we do that.

We are consistent in one thing: typo hurt eyes.

Those typos are exactly generated from and still existing in the kernel 
tree and they're constantly merged out of our carelessness.

> Such errors can be found algorithmically where the correct spelling is
> known. E.g. the file contains 'algorithm' so 'algrthm' can easily be
> obtained programatically.

Nice hint on transposition programmability which means effect to me.

It looks the mistake line could be removed form scripts/spelling.txt 
after we add transposition check to scripts/checkpatch.pl. ($0.02)

> 
> Suggest you restrict this to common misspellings. That's not a NAK and I'm
> not the relevant maintainer. Just my $0.02.
> 

Thanks for your comment.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-03-15  5:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-15  1:38 [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: add more typos to spelling.txt and sort Like Xu
2019-03-15  3:07 ` Finn Thain
2019-03-15  5:45   ` Like Xu [this message]

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