linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: increase error-prone spell checking

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:36:50 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Naoki Hayama <naoki.hayama@...eo.co.jp>,
        Luca Ceresoli <luca@...aceresoli.net>,
        Chunyou Tang <tangchunyou@....com>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        colin.king@...onical.com, xndchn@...il.com, j.neuschaefer@....net,
        ebiggers@...gle.com, sjpark@...zon.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zhangwen@...ong.com,
        tangchunyou@...ong.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/spelling.txt: increase error-prone spell
 checking

On Thu, 2021-01-21 at 18:14 +0900, Naoki Hayama wrote:
> On 2021/01/21 17:41, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> > On 21/01/21 04:21, Chunyou Tang wrote:
> > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:09:05 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2021-01-20 at 19:02 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > > On 1/20/21 6:07 PM, ChunyouTang wrote:  
> > > > > > From: tangchunyou <tangchunyou@...ong.com>
[]
> > > > > > diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt  
> > > > []
> > > > > > @@ -875,6 +875,7 @@ manger||manager
> > > > > >  manoeuvering||maneuvering
> > > > > >  manufaucturing||manufacturing
> > > > > >  mappping||mapping
> > > > > > +maping||mapping
> > > > > >  matchs||matches
> > > > > >  mathimatical||mathematical
> > > > > >  mathimatic||mathematic  
[]
> Rules in scripts/spelling.txt are sorted
> alphabetically by leftside words. It would
> be better that you insert "maping||mapping"
> rule between:
> 
> "manufaucturing||manufacturing"
> and
> "mappping||mapping" .

That's not really true.  Try a diff of $ sort < scripts/spelling.txt

The general rule of thumb, and it's only a rule of thumb and it is
not strictly enforced, is that similar misspellings are grouped
together.