linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clk: Remove extraneous 'for' word in comments

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Message-ID: <74b4a00b524cf8dd11631692dee65ccbba34b8cb.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:22:51 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Rishi Gupta <gupt21@...il.com>, sboyd@...nel.org,
        kernel-janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     mturquette@...libre.com, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: Remove extraneous 'for' word in comments

On Sat, 2019-08-17 at 12:05 +0530, Rishi Gupta wrote:
> An extra 'for' word is grammatically incorrect in the comment
> 'verifying ops for multi-parent clks'. This commit removes
> this extra for word.

A few other repeated word typos in comments are 
common in the kernel and most could be changed.

$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bthe the\b' | wc -l
285
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bto to\b' | wc -l
62
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bfor for\b' | wc -l
31
$ git grep -P
'^\s*/?\*.*\bfrom from\b' | wc -l
22
$ git grep -P '^\s*/?\*.*\bare are\b'
| wc -l
16