Re: [PATCH] sound/soc/codecs: fix spelling typo in comments

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Sep 24 2020 - 12:22:53 EST


On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 17:12 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2020 at 09:01:21AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2020-09-24 at 13:33 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > and compliment appears to be the one that
> > > is used in the datasheet for this part...
> > It's difficult to fix datasheet typos.
>
> Right, and if we search for the thing in the datasheet we should find
> the thing in the datasheet so it's best to follow the datsheet even if
> we don't think it's correct.

That's one opinion.

Another would be to use the correct word and
if necessary add some comment showing that the
datasheet writer didn't open a dictionary.

complement (sic: compliment)

I don't believe that's necessary, but opinions
vary.