Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct spelling of "userspace"

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:

> On 10/14/25 7:57 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org> writes:
>> 
>>> The term "userspace" should be a single word. Fix the typo
>>> "userpace" accordingly.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@redadmin.org>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>>> index a0cc017e4424..ed1f8f1e86c5 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>>> @@ -186,6 +186,6 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting
>>>  
>>>   18) ``N`` if an in-kernel test, such as a KUnit test, has been run.
>>>  
>>> - 19) ``J`` if userpace opened /dev/fwctl/* and performed a FWTCL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE
>>> + 19) ``J`` if userspace opened /dev/fwctl/* and performed a FWTCL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE
>>>       to use the devices debugging features. Device debugging features could
>>>       cause the device to malfunction in undefined ways.
>> 
>> Applied, thanks.
>
> Comparing to the "MSDOS" spelling patch:
>
> did you check/count "userspace" vs. "user space" vs. "user-space"
> in the kernel source tree?

No, but this patch was fixing "userpace", which is overtly wrong.  It
turns out that there's a surprising number of those, too, but still far
fewer.

jon