linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: ioctl: fix typo

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Message-ID: <20191024121152.2004af92@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:11:52 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Chris Packham <chris.packham@...iedtelesis.co.nz>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: ioctl: fix typo

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 14:43:36 +1300
Chris Packham <chris.packham@...iedtelesis.co.nz> wrote:

> "pointres" should be "pointers".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@...iedtelesis.co.nz>
> ---
>  Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.rst b/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.rst
> index ac697fef3545..2d4829b2fb09 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/botching-up-ioctls.rst
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ will need to add a 32-bit compat layer:
>     conversion or worse, fiddle the raw __u64 through your code since that
>     diminishes the checking tools like sparse can provide. The macro
>     u64_to_user_ptr can be used in the kernel to avoid warnings about integers
> -   and pointres of different sizes.
> +   and pointers of different sizes.

Applied, thanks.

jon