From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
To: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>,
dm-devel@lists.linux.dev, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] dm vdo: Fix spelling mistake "postive" -> "positive"
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 15:25:59 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ae8b93d1-2967-d4bf-4c2d-2b110b9d2fc4@crashcourse.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1d2cd544-97a6-4ddd-8758-048bbd104eb5@redhat.com>
On Thu, 3 Sep 2026, Matthew Sakai wrote:
> I had to look at this for quite a while to figure out what was going on.
> We made the same spelling error twice in the same function and somehow only
> noticed the first one previously? Anyway,
>
> Reviewed-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
>
> On 9/3/26 11:23 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > There is another spelling mistake in a vdo_log_error message that
> > I somehow overlooked last time. Fix it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
> > b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
> > index 1d8375cc3c3e..043549b1fc2e 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
> > @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static int __must_check parse_slab_size(const char
> > *slab_str, block_count_t *sla
> > result = kstrtoull(slab_str, 10, &value);
> > if (result) {
> > - vdo_log_error("optional parameter error: invalid slab size,
> > must be a postive integer");
> > + vdo_log_error("optional parameter error: invalid slab size,
> > must be a positive integer");
> > return -EINVAL;
> > }
My rule from years back was ... you find one typo, you "grep -rw"
the entire kernel tree.
rday
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-03 20:02 UTC|newest]
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2026-09-03 15:23 Colin Ian King
2026-09-03 19:06 ` Matthew Sakai
2026-09-03 19:25 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2026-09-03 19:29 ` Colin King (gmail)
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2026-03-28 12:33 Colin Ian King
2026-03-31 12:40 ` Matthew Sakai
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