Re: [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2

[Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@yahoo.com.br>]

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:
> 
> > 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