Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2 | From | Fernando Carrijo <> | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:49:13 -0200 |
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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();;
Cheers, Fernando
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