Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:09:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:09:15 -0500 Received: from virtisp1.zianet.com ([216.234.192.105]:51728 "HELO mesatop.zianet.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 14:09:14 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker From: Steven Cole To: Dan Kegel Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer , Joe Perches , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mike@aiinc.ca In-Reply-To: <3E6101DE.5060301@kegel.com> References: <3E6101DE.5060301@kegel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2-5mdk Date: 01 Mar 2003 12:18:23 -0700 Message-Id: <1046546305.10138.415.camel@spc1.mesatop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1405 Lines: 40 On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 11:54, Dan Kegel wrote: > > I suggest we remove the entries > broken=borken > brain-damaged=dain-bramaged,dain bramaged > as we're not trying to remove humor from the comments. > > Also, the words 'controllen' and 'callin', are not typos, so > calling=callin > should be removed, and > controller=controler,controllen > should be just > controller=controler > > The above examples make me think the list of corrections will have > to be very carefully vetted before we turn this thing loose. > - Dan Once you've loosed your beast upon the tree, I'd suggest that you very carefully look through the resulting diff for inappropriate corrections and redact the unnecessary hunks. In the spelling fixes which I sent to Linus, I redacted hunks which didn't need fixing. For example, Linus making fun of Sun folks' ability to spell, etc. and some comments in French or German for which the spelling was correct in those languages. In addition to making fixes in the comments in the source, all of Documentation should be fair game. Then you'll have to contend with the folks whose out-of-tree patches you've borked. Steven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/