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

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Date:   Thu, 21 Jan 2021 18:49:47 +0900
From:   Naoki Hayama <naoki.hayama@...eo.co.jp>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        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

Dear Joe,

On 2021/01/21 18:36, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Thank you for pointing out. I misunderstood about it.
Sorry for the confusion.