Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: look for common misspellings

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Sep 08 2014 - 14:48:43 EST


On Mon, 2014-09-08 at 11:15 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list. Several false
> positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
> common in the kernel:
>
> backword backwords
> invalide valide
> recieves
> singed unsinged
>
> While going back and fixing existing spelling mistakes isn't a high
> priority, it'd be nice to try to catch them before they hit the tree.

Seems sensible enough.

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>


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