From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Michael Hayes <mike@aiinc.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spelling in 2.6.2
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:19:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040210171918.67ac6e48.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402102009.i1AK91T20554@aiinc.aiinc.ca>
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:09:01 -0800 Michael Hayes <mike@aiinc.ca> wrote:
| Relax, this is not a spelling patch.
|
| I was curious how fast spelling errors flow into the kernel, so I
| looked at the + lines in the 2.6.2 patch. A few of the errors
| already existed, but most of them are new. It turns out that there
| are around 200 new spelling errors in 2.6.2.
|
| A "wether" (castrated goat) has appeared, along with a "Rusell" that
| should be stamped out before it spreads. Someone had a dreadful time
| with "technology" and its variants, spelling it wrong 9 different ways.
|
| Here's what I found:
|
| File Error Should be #
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Amazing (to me). It's a good thing that we have a compiler to
check the non-comments, otherwise it might never boot.
BTW, I've heard that it's typos in user-visible messages that
really mattter. :)
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-11 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-10 20:09 Michael Hayes
2004-02-10 20:54 ` DervishD
2004-02-11 1:19 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-02-11 11:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-02-11 9:36 ` vda
2004-02-11 12:43 ` Printk message and numbers formating - was " Michael Frank
2004-02-11 18:02 ` Tomas Szepe
2004-02-14 0:46 ` Pavel Machek
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