Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753900AbYKYWx6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:53:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752926AbYKYWxs (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:53:48 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:35244 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752284AbYKYWxr (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:53:47 -0500 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:53:08 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Coly Li Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2 Message-Id: <20081125145308.8633bf4a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <492AE7ED.8040304@suse.de> References: <492AE7ED.8040304@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1862 Lines: 37 On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:44:13 +0800 Coly Li wrote: > When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull". After doing grep "successfull " > in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great minds always think alike :) Mutter. I have a super-strict (lol) policy of "I don't take patches which fix typos/spellos in comments", because we have so many such errors, and I'd get buried in silly patches. But I do take patches which fix documentation and user-visible printks, etc. > Documentation/hwmon/abituguru-datasheet | 4 ++-- > Documentation/scsi/scsi_fc_transport.txt | 4 ++-- > arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/spufs.h | 2 +- > drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c | 2 +- > drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/debuglib.h | 2 +- > drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/os_4bri.c | 2 +- > drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/os_bri.c | 2 +- > drivers/isdn/hardware/eicon/os_pri.c | 2 +- > drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/dma.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c | 2 +- > drivers/s390/block/dasd_3990_erp.c | 2 +- > drivers/s390/block/dasd_int.h | 2 +- > drivers/s390/char/tape_3590.c | 2 +- > drivers/s390/cio/cio.c | 2 +- > drivers/s390/cio/qdio_main.c | 2 +- > fs/ext4/extents.c | 2 +- > fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 4 ++-- > net/sctp/auth.c | 2 +- This patch sneakily mixed the two up, so I merged it ;) -- 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/