Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756603Ab1CaGaF (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:30:05 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:49651 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751302Ab1CaGaE (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:30:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:29:49 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Lucas De Marchi Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, trivial@kernel.org, lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Fix common misspellings Message-ID: <20110331062949.GA29526@elte.hu> References: <20110331032307.GA27999@vigoh> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110331032307.GA27999@vigoh> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.3.1 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2076 Lines: 56 hi Lucas, * Lucas De Marchi wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > Please pull the following fix for common misspellings in kernel code: > > git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6.git for-linus > > I was doing it in a per maintainer basis, but as noted by Ingo, this was not > working out. > > There's only one big patch that fixes misspellings in > * Documentation > * Comments > * Strings that are used only in printk and the like I've gone over your changes and noticed one very small thing, you've changed copyright strings as well: - * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell Internation Ltd. + * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell International Ltd. - * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell Internation Ltd. + * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell International Ltd. - * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell Internation Ltd. + * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell International Ltd. - * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Marvell Internation Ltd. + * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Marvell International Ltd. - * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell Internation Ltd. + * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell International Ltd. - * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell Internation Ltd. + * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell International Ltd. - * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell Internation Ltd. + * Copyright (C) 2007 Marvell International Ltd. - * Copyright (c) 2002 The Regents of the Unviersity of Michigan + * Copyright (c) 2002 The Regents of the University of Michigan While all the fixes are correct, i'd advise against changing copyright notices without the SOB of the authors. The s/Unviersity/University fix would be ok i guess because it's a very clear typo, but the Marvell one is borderline (while it too is probably a typo) i think it needs a signoff from those who put the copyright notices there in that form. You could leave out those bits from the patch as well. Thanks, Ingo -- 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/