linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [trivial] perf: Spelling s/EACCESS/EACCES/

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Message-ID: <20190527141201.GA1537@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 May 2019 16:12:01 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [trivial] perf: Spelling s/EACCESS/EACCES/


* Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be> wrote:

> The correct spelling is EACCES:
> 
> include/uapi/asm-generic/errno-base.h:#define EACCES 13 /* Permission denied */
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
> ---
>  include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> index 0ab99c7b652d41b1..10569e25b5a9b656 100644
> --- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
> +++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
> @@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ struct pmu {
>  	 *  -EBUSY	-- @event is for this PMU but PMU temporarily unavailable
>  	 *  -EINVAL	-- @event is for this PMU but @event is not valid
>  	 *  -EOPNOTSUPP -- @event is for this PMU, @event is valid, but not supported
> -	 *  -EACCESS	-- @event is for this PMU, @event is valid, but no privilidges
> +	 *  -EACCES	-- @event is for this PMU, @event is valid, but no privilidges
>  	 *
>  	 *  0		-- @event is for this PMU and valid
>  	 *


Actually, -EACCES got typoed itself and survived due to historic reasons. 
I think we can tolerate the 'typo' fixed in documentation, can we?

Also, the *far* bigger typo is, in the same line:

s/privilidges
 /privileges

:-)

Thanks,

	Ingo