Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: add more typos to spelling.txt and sort | From | Like Xu <> | Date | Fri, 15 Mar 2019 13:45:50 +0800 |
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On 2019/3/15 11:07, Finn Thain wrote: > > Does it makes sense to list every typo that is simply a transposition of > characters or a character omitted? This file will become very large very > quickly if we do that.
We are consistent in one thing: typo hurt eyes.
Those typos are exactly generated from and still existing in the kernel tree and they're constantly merged out of our carelessness.
> Such errors can be found algorithmically where the correct spelling is > known. E.g. the file contains 'algorithm' so 'algrthm' can easily be > obtained programatically.
Nice hint on transposition programmability which means effect to me.
It looks the mistake line could be removed form scripts/spelling.txt after we add transposition check to scripts/checkpatch.pl. ($0.02)
> > Suggest you restrict this to common misspellings. That's not a NAK and I'm > not the relevant maintainer. Just my $0.02. >
Thanks for your comment.
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