linux-kernel - Re: scripts/spelling.txt: Fix "mistake" version of "synchronization"

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Date:   Sun, 26 Sep 2021 12:52:24 +0100
From:   Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/spelling.txt: Fix "mistake" version of "synchronization"



On 26/09/2021 07:55, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> If both "mistake" version and "correction" version are the same, a warning
> message is created by checkpatch which is impossible to fix. But it was
> noticed that Colan Ian King created a commit e6c0a0889b80 ("ALSA: aloop:
> Fix spelling mistake "synchronization" -> "synchronization"") which
> suggests that this spelling mistake was fixed by replacing the word
> "synchronization" with itself. But the actual diff shows that the mistake
> in the code was "sychronization". It is rather likely that the "mistake"
> in spelling.txt should have been the latter.
> 
> Fixes: 2e74c9433ba8 ("scripts/spelling.txt: add more spellings to spelling.txt")
> Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>

Good catch. My bad.

Reviewed-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

> ---
> This was already reported last week in https://lore.kernel.org/all/1930750.yhyOXdeGKK@sven-l14/
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt
> index fd8f07317b8e1c572e1e0f6bb4f9e01dff96c17c..acf6ea71129921ad77a201d13761382ee032483e 100644
> --- a/scripts/spelling.txt
> +++ b/scripts/spelling.txt
> @@ -1450,7 +1450,7 @@ syfs||sysfs
>  symetric||symmetric
>  synax||syntax
>  synchonized||synchronized
> -synchronization||synchronization
> +sychronization||synchronization
>  synchronuously||synchronously
>  syncronize||synchronize
>  syncronized||synchronized
>