linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Fix typos

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Message-ID: <AANLkTinz2TEgJD5XVXSgcN0Zq0cL43a9xh004etmA2=V@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:16:07 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Fix typos

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 16:08, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 17:00, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> It looks good for Documentation/.
>>
>> And fixing typos is certainly something that we want to do in
>> user-visible messages, like printk strings.
>
> What about comments and code?

i think it's useful to fix typos in those things, but this would def
require a human to review things.  it might also be saner to start
with a whitelist of common typos (doesnt checkpatch have this ?)
rather than doing it against a dictionary.

for example, we've committed a few drivers that used "platfrom" in
their structure names when it should have been "platform".
-mike
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