Re: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: add more typos to spelling.txt and sort

From: Like Xu
Date: Fri Mar 15 2019 - 01:46:03 EST


On 2019/3/15 11:07, Finn Thain wrote:

Does it makes sense to list every typo that is simply a transposition of
characters or a character omitted? This file will become very large very
quickly if we do that.

We are consistent in one thing: typo hurt eyes.

Those typos are exactly generated from and still existing in the kernel tree and they're constantly merged out of our carelessness.

Such errors can be found algorithmically where the correct spelling is
known. E.g. the file contains 'algorithm' so 'algrthm' can easily be
obtained programatically.

Nice hint on transposition programmability which means effect to me.

It looks the mistake line could be removed form scripts/spelling.txt after we add transposition check to scripts/checkpatch.pl. ($0.02)


Suggest you restrict this to common misspellings. That's not a NAK and I'm
not the relevant maintainer. Just my $0.02.


Thanks for your comment.