From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Perches Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] [IPv6] spelling fix in /proc: /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/temp_prefered_lft Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:25:19 -0700 Message-ID: <1205976319.26345.20.camel@localhost> References: <20080319204227.GF6935@ens-lyon.fr> <20080319.135205.125229102.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pekkas@netcore.fi, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from 136-022.dsl.labridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:1547 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751835AbYCTB2z (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:28:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080319.135205.125229102.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2008-03-19 at 13:52 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Benoit Boissinot > Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:42:27 +0100 > > Here is a patch to fix all the spelling error (prefered -> preferred) > I think this doesn't add any value. > If the procfs file name has to remain the same, which it does, > changing variable and macro names to be different will only > cause merge conflicts and pain yet have no redeeming value. I disagree. Proper spelling has value. Misspelled words require additional time to read and parse. Any change can cause merge conflicts. A simple comment on the proc name use should be added though.