From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262652AbUBKB1p (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:27:45 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263462AbUBKB1o (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:27:44 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:13242 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262652AbUBKBZy (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 20:25:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:19:18 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Michael Hayes Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Spelling in 2.6.2 Message-Id: <20040210171918.67ac6e48.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200402102009.i1AK91T20554@aiinc.aiinc.ca> References: <200402102009.i1AK91T20554@aiinc.aiinc.ca> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:09:01 -0800 Michael Hayes 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