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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: add more typos to spelling.txt and sort
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    On 2019/3/15 11:07, Finn Thain wrote:
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    > 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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