linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Fix 2 typos

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Date:   Wed, 22 Jun 2022 07:46:01 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Zhang Jiaming <jiaming@...china.com>, tsbogend@...ha.franken.de
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        liqiong@...china.com, renyu@...china.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Fix 2 typos

On Wed, 2022-06-22 at 07:28 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 6/22/22 02:07, Zhang Jiaming wrote:
> > Change 'modifed' to 'modified'.
> > Change 'relys' to 'relays'.
[]
> > diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/executive/cvmx-helper-board.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/executive/cvmx-helper-board.c
[]
> > @@ -282,9 +282,9 @@ union cvmx_helper_link_info __cvmx_helper_board_link_get(int ipd_port)
> >   * support and should return the number of actual ports on the
> >   * board.
> >   *
> > - * This function must be modifed for every new Octeon board.
> > + * This function must be modified for every new Octeon board.
> >   * Internally it uses switch statements based on the cvmx_sysinfo
> > - * data to determine board types and revisions. It relys on the
> 
>                                                       relies
> 
> But it would be better to restrict this barrage (or swarm) of patches
> to Kconfig help text problems and/or strings that are printed to users.

I believe fixing typos isn't a particular problem and is
overall rather a good thing.

Though backporting these patches would be silly.