linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add optional --codespell dictionary to find more typos

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Message-ID: <1425583295.31859.29.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:21:35 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Masanari Iida <standby24x7@...il.com>,
	codespell@...glegroups.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add optional --codespell dictionary to find
 more typos

On Thu, 2015-03-05 at 16:13 -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > If a codespell dictionary exists, use it if desired.
> > default is off, maybe it could be turned on later.
> >
> > codespell's dictionary format allows multiple possible corrections,
> > ignore that for now and only use the first suggestion.
> 
> Most of them were particularly added to avoid wrong suggestions in
> kernel code base (admittedly a long time ago)...
> Wouldn't it be better to output the entire list of suggestions as
> codespell the tool does?

If you want to write the code, be my guest.

> I'm not a perl guru, but couldn't we have a single option like
> --codespell / --codespell=FILE ?

Not easily.  There's no easy way to turn off codespell like that.


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