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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>,
	linux-doc <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: look for common misspellings
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:15:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1410444957.9942.3.camel@joe-AO725> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMuHMdUvBdEKCYezARJ8PvuQPQbi+Wq-fwO+Z2cxYXOtVzp5GQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 09:19 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:15:24 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >> Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list. Several false
> >> positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
[]
> > I have a feeling this is going to be a rat hole and that
> > scripts/spelling.txt will grow to consume the planet.  Oh well, whatev.
> 
> What about making checkpatch use the codespell dictionay if codespell
> is installed?
> 
> Codespell is in Ubuntu 14.04LTS (but not in 12.04LTS).

I'm a little concerned about false positives if that's
done, but it seems simple enough.

Maybe both of:

codespell:	/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt
lintian:	/usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections




  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-11 14:16 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
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 [this message]
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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