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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>,
	Colin King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] netdevsim: fix spelling mistake "forbidded" -> "forbid"
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 12:14:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191008121457.34b570be@cakuba.netronome.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1910080921350.25653@eddie.linux-mips.org>

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 09:29:58 +0100 (BST), Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2019, Colin King wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c
> > index a3d7d39f231a..ff6ced5487b6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/dev.c
> > @@ -486,7 +486,7 @@ static int nsim_dev_reload_down(struct devlink *devlink, bool netns_change,
> >  		/* For testing purposes, user set debugfs dont_allow_reload
> >  		 * value to true. So forbid it.
> >  		 */
> > -		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "User forbidded reload for testing purposes");
> > +		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "User forbid the reload for testing purposes");  
> 
>  If nitpicking about grammar, then FWIW I believe it should actually be:
> 
> 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "User forbade the reload for testing purposes");
> 
> (and then:
> 
> 		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_MOD(extack, "User set up the reload to fail for testing purposes");
> 
> elsewhere).

So I consulted with someone vaguely British, and they said they'd use
"forbid" here, therefore I've applied the patch to net-next.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-10-08 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-08  8:17 Colin King
2019-10-08  8:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2019-10-08 19:14   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]

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