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Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2012 23:09:04 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] rtnetlink: fix spelling errors

On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 13:27 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Minor spelling mistakes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
> 
> --- a/include/net/rtnetlink.h	2012-02-27 08:43:02.400935781 -0800
> +++ b/include/net/rtnetlink.h	2012-04-09 13:24:02.705034830 -0700
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ static inline int rtnl_msg_family(const
>   *	@get_size: Function to calculate required room for dumping device
>   *		   specific netlink attributes
>   *	@fill_info: Function to dump device specific netlink attributes
> - *	@get_xstats_size: Function to calculate required room for dumping devic
> + *	@get_xstats_size: Function to calculate required room for dumping device
>   *			  specific statistics
>   *	@fill_xstats: Function to dump device specific statistics
>   */
> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ extern void	rtnl_link_unregister(struct
>   * 	@fill_link_af: Function to fill IFLA_AF_SPEC with address family
>   * 		       specific netlink attributes.
>   * 	@get_link_af_size: Function to calculate size of address family specific
> - * 			   netlink attributes exlusive the container attribute.
> + * 			   netlink attributes exclusive the container attribute.
[...]

That's now a real word but it's not grammatically correct; 'exclusive
the' should be changed to 'exclusive of the' or 'excluding the'.

Ben.

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