linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] KVM: selftests: Fix spelling mistake "probabalistic" -> "probabilistic"

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Date:   Fri, 2 Dec 2022 18:31:05 +0000
From:   Sean Christopherson <seanjc@...gle.com>
To:     "Colin King (gmail)" <colin.i.king@...il.com>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] KVM: selftests: Fix spelling mistake
 "probabalistic" -> "probabilistic"

On Fri, Dec 02, 2022, Colin King (gmail) wrote:
> On 02/12/2022 17:21, Sean Christopherson wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2022, Colin Ian King wrote:
> > > There is a spelling mistake in some help text. Fix it.
> > 
> > I assume you have a script/tool of some form to do spell checking?  If so, can
> > you point me at it?  I'd love to incorporate something like that into my workflow.
> 
> https://github.com/ColinIanKing/kernelscan
> 
> It needs an appropriate dictionary to be installed. It's very fast (but
> sometimes makes mistakes, I need to fix those!).
> 
> ./kernelscan -k src_directory > mistakes.txt

Ah, it's specifically checking messages to avoid false postives on code and whatnot.
Neat!

> I normally run this across the entire kernel git repo on a daily basis, and
> diff the new results with the previous results using meld and figure out
> what needs to be fixed.
> 
> You may be better off with using codespell

Heh, my kind of nitpicking people :-)

  MSDOS->MS-DOS

Thanks a ton, that's exactly what I was looking for!