2019-08-17 06:38:12

by rishi gupta

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Subject: [PATCH] clk: Remove extraneous 'for' word in comments

An extra 'for' word is grammatically incorrect in the comment
'verifying ops for multi-parent clks'. This commit removes
this extra for word.

Signed-off-by: Rishi Gupta <[email protected]>
---
drivers/clk/clk.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/clk/clk.c b/drivers/clk/clk.c
index c099070..bea50ee 100644
--- a/drivers/clk/clk.c
+++ b/drivers/clk/clk.c
@@ -2437,7 +2437,7 @@ static int clk_core_set_parent_nolock(struct clk_core *core,
if (core->parent == parent)
return 0;

- /* verify ops for for multi-parent clks */
+ /* verify ops for multi-parent clks */
if (core->num_parents > 1 && !core->ops->set_parent)
return -EPERM;

--
2.7.4


2019-08-17 07:23:54

by Joe Perches

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: Remove extraneous 'for' word in comments

On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 12:05 +0530, Rishi Gupta wrote:
> An extra 'for' word is grammatically incorrect in the comment
> 'verifying ops for multi-parent clks'. This commit removes
> this extra for word.

A few other repeated word typos in comments are
common in the kernel and most could be changed.

$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bthe the\b' | wc -l
285
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bto to\b' | wc -l
62
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bfor for\b' | wc -l
31
$ git grep -P
'^\s*/?\*.*\bfrom from\b' | wc -l
22
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bare are\b'
| wc -l
16


2019-08-17 15:00:28

by rishi gupta

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: Remove extraneous 'for' word in comments

Thanks Joe for higlighting this. I am going
to send patches for them as well soon.

2019-08-18 01:14:56

by Stephen Boyd

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: Remove extraneous 'for' word in comments

Quoting Rishi Gupta (2019-08-16 23:35:59)
> An extra 'for' word is grammatically incorrect in the comment
> 'verifying ops for multi-parent clks'. This commit removes
> this extra for word.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rishi Gupta <[email protected]>
> ---

Applied to clk-next