Messages in this thread | | | From | Lucas De Marchi <> | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2010 17:23:16 -0300 | Subject | Re: [RFC] Fix typos |
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On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 17:16, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 16:08, Lucas De Marchi wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 17:00, Randy Dunlap wrote: >>> It looks good for Documentation/. >>> >>> And fixing typos is certainly something that we want to do in >>> user-visible messages, like printk strings. >> >> What about comments and code? > > i think it's useful to fix typos in those things, but this would def > require a human to review things. it might also be saner to start
I agree. This is me :-)
> with a whitelist of common typos (doesnt checkpatch have this ?) > rather than doing it against a dictionary.
I'm running a script with a dictionary of common typos, not a "normal dictionary".
> for example, we've committed a few drivers that used "platfrom" in > their structure names when it should have been "platform".
I didn't have this typo, but I can add it as well.
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