linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] riscv: cacheinfo: fix typo of homogenous

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Message-ID: <mhng-51275835-4c34-4099-85f5-13c6dbef4e19@palmerdabbelt-glaptop>
Date:   Sat, 23 Oct 2021 13:30:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>
To:     georgedanielmangum@...il.com
CC:     georgedanielmangum@...il.com,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        aou@...s.berkeley.edu, Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        peterz@...radead.org, wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com, will@...nel.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:     Re: [PATCH] riscv: cacheinfo: fix typo of homogenous

On Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:56:25 PDT (-0700), georgedanielmangum@...il.com wrote:
> Updates 'homonogenous' to 'homogenous' in comment.

I don't really know spelling that well, but checkpatch says

    WARNING: 'homogenous' may be misspelled - perhaps 'homogeneous'?

when applying this.  It looks like they're both words, but "homogeneous" 
is the right one?

>
> Signed-off-by: hasheddan <georgedanielmangum@...il.com>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> index 90deabfe63ea..ff98546b1152 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static struct cacheinfo *get_cacheinfo(u32 level, enum cache_type type)
>  	/*
>  	 * Using raw_smp_processor_id() elides a preemptability check, but this
>  	 * is really indicative of a larger problem: the cacheinfo UABI assumes
> -	 * that cores have a homonogenous view of the cache hierarchy.  That
> +	 * that cores have a homogenous view of the cache hierarchy.  That
>  	 * happens to be the case for the current set of RISC-V systems, but
>  	 * likely won't be true in general.  Since there's no way to provide
>  	 * correct information for these systems via the current UABI we're