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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:09:01 -0800 Michael Hayes <mike@aiinc.ca> wrote: | Relax, this is not a spelling patch. | | I was curious how fast spelling errors flow into the kernel, so I | looked at the + lines in the 2.6.2 patch. A few of the errors | already existed, but most of them are new. It turns out that there | are around 200 new spelling errors in 2.6.2. | | A "wether" (castrated goat) has appeared, along with a "Rusell" that | should be stamped out before it spreads. Someone had a dreadful time | with "technology" and its variants, spelling it wrong 9 different ways. | | Here's what I found: | | File Error Should be # | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amazing (to me). It's a good thing that we have a compiler to check the non-comments, otherwise it might never boot. BTW, I've heard that it's typos in user-visible messages that really mattter. :) -- ~Randy - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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