From: "Colin King (gmail)" <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>,
Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Cc: 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 20:29:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d12c133f-2caf-4c9d-928b-b8372dd1c7dc@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae8b93d1-2967-d4bf-4c2d-2b110b9d2fc4@crashcourse.ca>
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On 03/09/2026 20:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.
Yup, normally do, somehow this slipped through :-(
>
> rday
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-03 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-03 15:23 Colin Ian King
2026-09-03 19:06 ` Matthew Sakai
2026-09-03 19:25 ` Robert P. J. Day
2026-09-03 19:29 ` Colin King (gmail) [this message]
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2026-03-28 12:33 Colin Ian King
2026-03-31 12:40 ` Matthew Sakai
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