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Subject: Re: report: scripts: checkpatch: Spell Checker Does Not Run with
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From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     federico.vaga@cern.ch
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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 07:19:36 -0800
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On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 16:03 +0100, Federico Vaga wrote:
> On Thursday, February 14, 2019 3:44:55 PM CET Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2019-02-14 at 13:48 +0100, Federico Vaga wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Recently I have produce a couple of patches but I get different warnings
> > > if I run checkpatch on the file (-f) or if I run it of a patch file. In
> > > particular, the problem I found is with the spell checker which seems to
> > > run only when the option '-f' is not used. I am wandering if there are
> > > other similar cases.
> > > 
> > > I do not know Perl, so I cannot investigate more, but I have a practical
> > > example. I have this simple patch applied on my tree that introduces a
> > > spell
> > > error:
> > If you want spelling fixes on files you have to use --strict
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Is it a design choice to have different checks enabled with '-f'? 

Yes.

It was for a minimization of churn.

commit 66b47b4a9dad00e45c049d79966de9a3a1f4d337
Author: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 13 15:51:57 2014 -0700

    checkpatch: look for common misspellings
    
    Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list.  Several false
    positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
    common in the kernel:
    
            backword backwords
            invalide valide
            recieves
            singed unsinged
    
    While going back and fixing existing spelling mistakes isn't a high
    priority, it'd be nice to try to catch them before they hit the tree.