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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-doc <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: look for common misspellings
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 11:48:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1410202114.12560.16.camel@joe-AO725> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140908181524.GA11839@www.outflux.net>

On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 11:15 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list. Several false
> positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
> common in the kernel:
> 
> 	backword backwords
> 	invalide valide
> 	recieves
> 	singed unsinged
> 
> While going back and fixing existing spelling mistakes isn't a high
> priority, it'd be nice to try to catch them before they hit the tree.

Seems sensible enough.

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>



  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 18:15 Kees Cook
2014-09-08 18:48 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-09-10  4:37   ` Masanari Iida
2014-09-10  7:00     ` Joe Perches
2014-09-10 22:52 ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-11  2:10   ` Joe Perches
2014-09-11  7:19   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-09-11 14:12     ` Kees Cook
2014-09-11 14:15     ` Joe Perches
2014-09-12  4:09       ` Masanari Iida
2014-09-12  4:45         ` Joe Perches
2014-09-12 10:30           ` Masanari Iida

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