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

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Date:   Sun, 24 Oct 2021 21:12:24 -0400
From:   Daniel Mangum <georgedanielmangum@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        Atish Patra <Atish.Patra@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: cacheinfo: fix typo of homogenous

Thanks for the feedback folks! I have sent a v2 patch.

Dan


On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 4:36 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> On 10/23/21 1:30 PM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> Internet search to grammar.com says:
>
> To summarise, Earlier, homogenous was used as a scientific term, mainly in biology, but now it is almost obsolete, being replaced by homologous. Whereas, homogeneous is a common word, very much in use and means having similar or comparable characteristics.
>
> Several web sites agree that homogeneous is currently preferable.
>
> >>
> >> 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
>
>
> --
> ~Randy