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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] [IPv6] spelling fix in /proc:
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:52:05 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:42:27 +0100

> Is there a way to fix a bad spelling in /proc ?
> 
> Here is a patch to fix all the spelling error (prefered -> preferred)
> in the ipv6 code. I didn't change the /proc name but everything else is
> changed.
> Currently you can found both spelling in the ipv6 code.
> Is it ok ?

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.