Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: Fix a typo | From | Christophe JAILLET <> | Date | Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:53:00 +0200 |
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Le 13/04/2020 à 09:15, Joe Perches a écrit : > On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 08:56 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote: >> Le 12/04/2020 à 23:35, Joe Perches a écrit : >>> On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 23:20 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote: >>>> s/mvmeta/mvneta/ >>> nice. how did you find this? >> Hi, >> >> This is based on a bash script I've made a while ago (see [1]) >> I've slightly updated it, but the idea is still the same. I search >> strings in a file with some variation on the file name (2 inverted >> chars, 1 missing char or 1 modified char). >> >> The output is horrible, and a lot of filtering should be done. >> It is much like noise, with MANY false positives. But I manage to dig >> some interesting stuff out of it. >> >> If interested in the updated script, just ask, but except the concept >> itself, I'm not sure than anything else worth anything and is should be >> rewritten from scratch. >> >> The update includes some tweaks in order to search into Kconfig files >> instead. >> >> CJ >> >> [1]: https://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=156382201306781&w=4 > Nice. > > I was wondering if you used levenshtein distance or something else. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance > > Well, kind of hand-written version :)
If of any interest: https://marc.info/?l=linux-driver-devel&m=141798041130581&w=4
I don't remember having played with it myself, but it looks interesting.
CJ
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