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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2
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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:
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> > 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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