Re: [RFC] Fix typos

[Lucas De Marchi]

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 17:16, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 16:08, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 17:00, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> It looks good for Documentation/.
>>>
>>> And fixing typos is certainly something that we want to do in
>>> user-visible messages, like printk strings.
>>
>> What about comments and code?
>
> i think it's useful to fix typos in those things, but this would def
> require a human to review things.  it might also be saner to start

I agree. This is me :-)

> with a whitelist of common typos (doesnt checkpatch have this ?)
> rather than doing it against a dictionary.

I'm running a script with a dictionary of common typos, not a "normal
dictionary".

> for example, we've committed a few drivers that used "platfrom" in
> their structure names when it should have been "platform".

I didn't have this typo, but I can add it as well.


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Lucas De Marchi
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