Re: [PATCH] fix similar typos to successfull, v2

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Nov 25 2008 - 19:05:36 EST


On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:49:13 -0200
Fernando Carrijo <fcarrijo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 14:53 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:44:13 +0800
> > Coly Li <coyli@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > When I review ocfs2 code, find there are 2 typos to "successfull". After doing grep "successfull "
> > > in kernel tree, 22 typos found totally -- great minds always think alike :)
> >
> > Mutter. I have a super-strict (lol) policy of "I don't take patches
> > which fix typos/spellos in comments", because we have so many such
> > errors, and I'd get buried in silly patches. But I do take patches
> > which fix documentation and user-visible printks, etc.
>
> Since you started the thread, I feel less guilty to talk about the
> existence of tons of another kind of typo spread around the kernel
> sources: null statements created by duplicated semi-colons at the end of
> statements. Something like foo();;

We should just fix those.
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