From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7DA738E8A7 for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2026 15:40:01 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788795608; cv=none; b=Jq9YPPnJxl1D5CupVpxVZsaeIu3n40XYKU2BXye9qUSHRiLaYKWBCFj34YTEyb99V6fZKphseM+Haa2scIhyPgKNp72rn/l7+iIKorDWd5VEXJlu/jtSuZoKy9lvCSsTL9z/grNEvGeGKoW7lCRCaSAKT/XTGCMbxNZc6cwVbyk= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788795608; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Jel4EndZbXb8x1Xk/74XCyhNv7WEnh2O+SP3vcyl++Y=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=ZFXs0Ma/lPXC1iwaQa98bf/EvpGWZMtYxkmGFi9BUVGcKx4wDFhBSS2tIKBn1iZjfdYZMGsYe3gP5nrgMgzSKUI27Rp0oYsU656LE2QOvswN5B4MF2b76DRpQGkQwVtL3NL8q2eXZAEkHmtxAnxsSU15chGTzCLBxCsKnnjXpik= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=M1fjyC51; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="M1fjyC51" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=UKKWOnQCcoGtayn2pHOb7G8xUo0f1QkdSYMBVmDE/fE=; b=M1fjyC513h3nWasF84ID/8yH94 CzT/IvDHLCQw146LKf9PWfzJmPo1/gQf5Nhve0MA1acA9LgC6RG0tKVHYdWzux95LSH1YNSSZte1Y W1YjWEH+n5iT5YONetchrdokxM7u8ZMfSlqYn3zwVK2vZthVAsikl6iCOwiCAftjYMpLCn1sApcAN gU/ydiRMwptrw3IcLZ2qQsXdqiRBBH7Tv+KlbERnI4vB0KuywvhQzD1P/nP1z4xZGvKMGzioLsTs4 Opma2DuzMB6J10Tb/wWPkMaxe4iAUuegc98r0V5N6rvFMZZia4JInhzGOJfwhOZV02HQNN40ntTye u6N/JKQw==; Received: from [50.53.43.113] (helo=[192.168.254.34]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1x3bRr-00000007Cy9-34n7; Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:39:58 +0000 Message-ID: <22496d1a-eabe-4606-8619-391d96c124eb@infradead.org> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 08:39:54 -0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: keep British spelling for "initalise" To: Hemanth Selam , Andrew Morton Cc: Joe Perches , Colin Ian King , Jonathan Corbet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20260907091324.32211-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <20260907091324.32211-1-hemanth.selam@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 9/7/26 2:13 AM, Hemanth Selam wrote: > These are the only two entries in the file that map a British spelling > to an American one: > > initalised||initialized > initalise||initialize > > doc-guide/checkpatch.rst asks that British and American spellings be > left alone, so correcting the missing "i" should not also change the > variety of English. Following checkpatch here silently rewrites > "initalised" to "initialized" in files that otherwise use British > forms; arch/arm64 alone has 58 uses of "initialised" against 132 of > "initialized", so both are clearly in use. > > Map them to the British forms instead, so the misspelling is still > caught while the spelling variety is left to the author. > > Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap > Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5 > Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Thanks. > --- > scripts/spelling.txt | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt > index 3372873cd7bb..9ec2529bc584 100644 > --- a/scripts/spelling.txt > +++ b/scripts/spelling.txt > @@ -872,8 +872,8 @@ infromation||information > ingore||ignore > inheritence||inheritance > inital||initial > -initalised||initialized > -initalise||initialize > +initalised||initialised > +initalise||initialise > initalized||initialized > initalize||initialize > initation||initiation -- ~Randy