linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: Fixed multiple typos in multiple files

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Message-ID: <5cd5b88ec8f4500a716aa8b96d27d44e96ed65bf.camel@HansenPartnership.com>
Date:   Sun, 15 Oct 2023 22:27:03 -0400
From:   James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:     Muhammad Muzammil <m.muzzammilashraf@...il.com>
Cc:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: Fixed multiple typos in multiple files

On Sun, 2023-10-15 at 10:45 +0500, Muhammad Muzammil wrote:
> should I create the v2 or this patch is fine?

Personally, I don't think anyone cares about misspellings unless it
obscures the meaning of the sentence, so, given the interactions in
this thread, I'd argue the only one really worth fixing is relay ->
relies.

James


> 
> On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 9:27 PM James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, 2023-10-14 at 16:45 +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 08:31:35AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > >         /*
> > > > > -        * The caller from rmap relay on disabled preemption
> > > > > becase they never
> > > > > +        * The caller from rmap relay on disabled preemption
> > > > > because they never
> > > > >          * update their counter from in-interrupt context.
> > > > > For
> > > > > these two
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know what that (partial) sentence is trying to say...
> > > > Maybe someone else does.
> > > 
> > > s/relay/rely/
> > 
> > relies, surely, being the correct third person singular form of the
> > verb to match the nominative noun "the caller".
> > 
> > James
> > 
>