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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Muhammad Muzammil <m.muzzammilashraf@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fixed multiple typos in multiple files
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2023 22:27:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5cd5b88ec8f4500a716aa8b96d27d44e96ed65bf.camel@HansenPartnership.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHePoZVMMCcUNKbg5f9VrYo-x5E_rU1piQGHi67ZuY4Pyj4bg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, 2023-10-15 at 10:45 +0500, Muhammad Muzammil wrote:
> should I create the v2 or this patch is fine?

Personally, I don't think anyone cares about misspellings unless it
obscures the meaning of the sentence, so, given the interactions in
this thread, I'd argue the only one really worth fixing is relay ->
relies.

James


> 
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 9:27 PM James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2023-10-14 at 16:45 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 08:31:35AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > >         /*
> > > > > -        * The caller from rmap relay on disabled preemption
> > > > > becase they never
> > > > > +        * The caller from rmap relay on disabled preemption
> > > > > because they never
> > > > >          * update their counter from in-interrupt context.
> > > > > For
> > > > > these two
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know what that (partial) sentence is trying to say...
> > > > Maybe someone else does.
> > > 
> > > s/relay/rely/
> > 
> > relies, surely, being the correct third person singular form of the
> > verb to match the nominative noun "the caller".
> > 
> > James
> > 
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-16  2:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-14 12:33 Muhammad Muzammil
2023-10-14 15:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2023-10-14 15:45   ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-10-14 16:26     ` Randy Dunlap
2023-10-14 16:27     ` James Bottomley
2023-10-15  5:45       ` Muhammad Muzammil
2023-10-16  2:27         ` James Bottomley [this message]
2023-10-23 11:08           ` Muhammad Muzammil
2023-10-23 12:23             ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-10-23 12:45               ` Muhammad Muzammil

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