Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:05:24 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:49:13 -0200
Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:44:13 +0800
> > Coly Li <coyli@suse.de> 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.
> 
> Since you started the thread, I feel less guilty to talk about the
> existence of tons of another kind of typo spread around the kernel
> sources: null statements created by duplicated semi-colons at the end of
> statements. Something like foo();;

We should just fix those.
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