From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Rishi Gupta <gupt21@gmail.com>,
sboyd@kernel.org,
kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: mturquette@baylibre.com, linux-clk@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: Remove extraneous 'for' word in comments
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:22:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <74b4a00b524cf8dd11631692dee65ccbba34b8cb.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1566023759-7880-1-git-send-email-gupt21@gmail.com>
On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 12:05 +0530, Rishi Gupta wrote:
> An extra 'for' word is grammatically incorrect in the comment
> 'verifying ops for multi-parent clks'. This commit removes
> this extra for word.
A few other repeated word typos in comments are
common in the kernel and most could be changed.
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bthe the\b' | wc -l
285
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bto to\b' | wc -l
62
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bfor for\b' | wc -l
31
$ git grep -P
'^\s*/?\*.*\bfrom from\b' | wc -l
22
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bare are\b'
| wc -l
16
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-17 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-17 6:35 Rishi Gupta
2019-08-17 7:22 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2019-08-17 14:57 ` Rishi Gupta
2019-08-18 1:13 ` Stephen Boyd
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