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From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
To:     Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@vt.edu>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed typos in all directories of Documentation/ABI/
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Em Wed, 05 May 2021 16:43:59 -0400
Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@vt.edu> escreveu:

> Fix the following typos in the Documentation/ABI/ directory:
> 
> - In file obsolete/sysfs-cpuidle, change "obselete" for "obsolete".
> 
> - In file removed/sysfs-kernel-uids, change "propotional" for "proportional".
> 
> - In directory stable/, fix the following words: "associtated" for "associated",
>   "hexidecimal" for "hexadecimal", "vlue" for "value", "csed" for "caused" and 
>   "wrtie" for "write". This updates a total of five files.
> 
> - In directory testing/, fix the following words: "subystem" for "subsystem", 
>   isochrnous" for "isochronous", "Desctiptors" for "Descriptors", "picutre" for 
>   "picture", "capture" for "capture", "occured" for "ocurred", "connnected" for 
>   "connected","agressively" for "aggressively","manufacturee" for "manufacturer"
>   and "transaction" for "transaction" and "malformatted" for "malformed". This 
>   updates a total of ten files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <bilbao@vt.edu>

...
 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> index ef00fada2efb..bfd017204563 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
> @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Description:
>  		binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
>  		device.  It should follow the VPD format defined in
>  		PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
> -		that some devices may have malformatted data.  If the
> +		that some devices may have malformed data.  If the
>  		underlying VPD has a writable section then the
>  		corresponding section of this file will be writable.
>  

(not a native English speaker here)

I'm in doubt about this one. The description is talking about the
"VPD format".

On a quick look, it sounds that malformatted is valid, at least
in computing:

	https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malformatted
	https://etymologeek.com/eng/malformatted/73029882
	https://en.glosbe.com/en/en/malformatted

Maybe the best here would be to double-check with PCI maintainers
and/or take a look at PCI specs and see what it is used there.

Thanks,
Mauro