linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: Fix a typo

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Date:   Mon, 13 Apr 2020 09:53:00 +0200
From:   Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com,
        davem@...emloft.net
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: mvneta: Fix a typo

Le 13/04/2020 à 09:15, Joe Perches a écrit :
> On Mon, 2020-04-13 at 08:56 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>> Le 12/04/2020 à 23:35, Joe Perches a écrit :
>>> On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 23:20 +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
>>>> s/mvmeta/mvneta/
>>> nice. how did you find this?
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is based on a bash script I've made a while ago (see [1])
>> I've slightly updated it, but the idea is still the same. I search
>> strings in a file with some variation on the file name (2 inverted
>> chars, 1 missing char or 1 modified char).
>>
>> The output is horrible, and a lot of filtering should be done.
>> It is much like noise, with MANY false positives. But I manage to dig
>> some interesting stuff out of it.
>>
>> If interested in the updated script, just ask, but except the concept
>> itself, I'm not sure than anything else worth anything and is should be
>> rewritten from scratch.
>>
>> The update includes some tweaks in order to search into Kconfig files
>> instead.
>>
>> CJ
>>
>> [1]: https://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitors&m=156382201306781&w=4
> Nice.
>
> I was wondering if you used levenshtein distance or something else.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance
>
>
Well, kind of hand-written version :)

If of any interest:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-driver-devel&m=141798041130581&w=4

I don't remember having played with it myself, but it looks interesting.

CJ