linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix name of Russell King in various comments

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Message-ID: <20080710075329.GA24598@digi.com>
Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:53:29 +0200
From:	Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix name of Russell King in various comments

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:27:13 +0200 Uwe Kleine-K__nig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch was created by
> >
> >       git grep -E -l 'Rus(el|s?e)l King' | xargs -r -t perl -p -i -e 's/Rus(el|s?e)l King/Russell King/g'
> >
> > Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K__nig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@...i.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c  |    2 +-
> >  drivers/usb/host/ohci-lh7a404.c |    2 +-
> >  drivers/usb/host/ohci-s3c2410.c |    2 +-
> >  drivers/usb/host/ohci-sa1111.c  |    2 +-
> >  include/asm-avr32/setup.h       |    2 +-
> >  5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c
> > index 1b9abdb..2ec3584 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
> >   * Bus Glue for AMD Alchemy Au1xxx
> >   *
> >   * Written by Christopher Hoover <ch@....hp.com>
> > - * Based on fragments of previous driver by Rusell King et al.
> > + * Based on fragments of previous driver by Russell King et al.
> 
> Would the patch be smaller if we switched over to "Rusell" everywhere?
I think no, the patch would be bigger.  Even if you would only change
all occurences of "Russell King" to "Rusell King" this would affect ~500
lines in my working copy. :-)

> If so, we may as well do that.
So no. :-)  Moreover as I'm a bit sensitive for misspellings of my name,
too, I definitly support the patch as is.

Best regards
Uwe

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