From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753132AbaIJWwW (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:52:22 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58629 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752299AbaIJWwU (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:52:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:52:19 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Kees Cook Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft , Joe Perches , Masanari Iida , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-doc Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: look for common misspellings Message-Id: <20140910155219.3d21aef2df8b1754a736cc1a@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140908181524.GA11839@www.outflux.net> References: <20140908181524.GA11839@www.outflux.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:15:24 -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. 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. Have a kernel joke: --- a/scripts/spelling.txt~checkpatch-look-for-common-misspellings-fix +++ a/scripts/spelling.txt @@ -553,6 +553,7 @@ jeffies||jiffies juse||just jus||just kown||known +kubys|linus langage||language langauage||language langauge||language _