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From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix breakage caused by spelling 'fix'
To: m.c.p@wolk-project.de (Marc-Christian Petersen)
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:28:34 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: mike@aiinc.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
In-Reply-To: <200303062259.20480.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> from "Marc-Christian Petersen" at Mar 06, 2003 10:59:20 PM
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> > This fixes a spelling "fix" that resulted in a compile error.
> > With apologies to Russell King.
> > diff -ur a/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h b/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h
> > --- a/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h	Tue Mar  4 19:29:20 2003
> > +++ b/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h	Thu Mar  6 11:46:15 2003
> > @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
> >
> >  #if 0
> >   * The following is to fool mkdep into generating the correct
> > - * dependencies.  Without this, it can't figure out that this
> > + * dependencies.  Without this, it cant figure out that this
> A spelling fix should be a right spelling fix ;)
> 
> So either "cannot" or "can not" but not "cant" :)

"Can not" is technically wrong.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104691562715435&w=2

I also fell in to this trap.

John.
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