Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf: fix common misspellings

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Mar 22 2011 - 12:39:50 EST


On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  2530 files changed, 4988 insertions(+), 4988 deletions(-)
>
> Hm, i definitely think we do not want hundreds of commits per cycle to have a
> 'split up' patchset for these spelling fixes.
>
> A once per cycle patch to fix such things would be the most optimal model IMHO
> - and hopefully with time the patches will be getting (much) smaller :-)
>
> Anyway, it's all up to Linus whether he'll take a big patch.

I can take a big patch, but not during the merge window when there are
outstanding pull reqeuests etc. But possibly soon after -rc1, if it
gets some review and I feel comfortable that the patch is clearly only
spelling in comments (or whatever the exact rules are for codespell)

Linus
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