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Message-ID: <464b1628-957a-485b-87d9-47636491de22@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 08:11:45 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Abhinav Saxena <xandfury@...il.com>,
 linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
 Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@...wei.com>, Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/mm: Fix spelling in hwpoison.rst



On 11/6/24 10:30 PM, Abhinav Saxena wrote:
> Fix spelling of "focusses" to "focuses" to follow standard English usage.
> 

We accept British spellings.

internet says:
"Both spellings are acceptable in American and British English."

"Focused" is the past tense of the verb "focus" and can also be used as an adjective to mean clear. For example, "She had a focused approach in training". 
The plural of the noun "focus" can be either "foci" or "focuses". 

    FOCUS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    ), plural, 3rd person singular present tense focuses , focusing , past tense, past participle focused language note: The spellings...
    Collins Dictionary

Focussed vs Focused | Spelling, Explanation & Examples - QuillBot
Sep 10, 2024 — Published on September 10, 2024 by Trevor Marshall, MSc. Revised on October 29, 2024. Both focussed and focused are ac...
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Spelling Tips: Focused or Focussed? | Australia's Best Writing Tips
May 7, 2020 — Summary: Focused or Focussed? 'Focused' and 'focussed' are two spellings of the same word: Focused (one 's') is the sta...
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"
> Checkpatch.pl reported this issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Abhinav Saxena <xandfury@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
> index 483b72aa7c11..dd02fae484dc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ To quote the overview comment::
>  	hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
>  	failure.
>  
> -	This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
> +	This focuses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
>  	When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
>  	running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
>  	that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to

-- 
~Randy