linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: fix "interruptible" misspellings

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Date:   Thu, 5 Jan 2017 14:21:05 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: fix "interruptible" misspellings

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2016 06:55:45 -0700
> Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
>> A common misspelling of "interruptible" is "interruptable". This fixes
>> them in the tree and adds the two most common variations to spelling.txt.
>>
>> Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/hid/hiddev.txt          |  2 +-
>>  Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc     |  2 +-
>>  Documentation/sysrq.txt               |  2 +-
>>  arch/arc/include/asm/irqflags-arcv2.h |  2 +-
>>  arch/x86/platform/uv/tlb_uv.c         |  2 +-
>>  drivers/firmware/qcom_scm-32.c        |  2 +-
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fence.c | 12 ++++++------
>>  drivers/hid/Kconfig                   |  2 +-
>>  drivers/hid/usbhid/Kconfig            |  2 +-
>>  drivers/input/serio/hil_mlc.c         |  2 +-
>>  drivers/net/ethernet/amd/nmclan_cs.c  |  4 ++--
>>  drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c        |  2 +-
>>  drivers/tty/serial/mux.c              |  2 +-
>>  fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c                 |  2 +-
>>  mm/kmemleak.c                         |  2 +-
>>  scripts/spelling.txt                  |  2 ++
>>  sound/soc/intel/atom/sst/sst_pvt.c    |  2 +-
>>  17 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> So I'm a bit nervous about taking this one; I don't normally feel that
> the docs tree has the mandate to reach out into the rest of the kernel
> this way.  Sending them to maintainers individually wouldn't be much
> fun.  Maybe Jiri (CC'd) can take it for the trivial tree?

Thread necromancy!

Since this is all in comments, etc, it seems like it'd be okay to go
via docs, but trivial is fine by me too. Jiri, can you take this, or
should Jon?

Thanks!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Nexus Security