linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: Fix spelling and grammatical issues

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Message-ID: <d2271471-2601-41a2-aea3-b7de0ed78342@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 02:02:21 +0530
From: Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@...il.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
 jikos@...nel.org, bentiss@...nel.org, jdelvare@...e.com
Cc: skhan@...uxfoundation.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Fix spelling and grammatical issues

On 04/02/25 20:47, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> writes:
> 
>> On 2/4/25 05:48, Purva Yeshi wrote:
>>> Fix several spelling and grammatical errors across multiple
>>> documentation files.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>>    Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst                | 4 ++--
>>>    Documentation/hid/intel-ish-hid.rst         | 2 +-
>>>    Documentation/hid/uhid.rst                  | 2 +-
>>>    Documentation/hwmon/abituguru-datasheet.rst | 8 ++++----
>>>    Documentation/hwmon/abituguru.rst           | 2 +-
>>>    5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst b/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
>>> index 9b82c7f896aa..073485f84793 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
>>> +++ b/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
>>> @@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ To support these disparate requirements, the Linux USB system provides
>>>    HID events to two separate interfaces:
>>>    * the input subsystem, which converts HID events into normal input
>>>    device interfaces (such as keyboard, mouse and joystick) and a
>>> -normalised event interface - see Documentation/input/input.rst
>>> +normalized event interface - see Documentation/input/input.rst
>>
>> Is US spelling now mandated in the Linux kernel ?
> 
> No, from Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst:

Thank you for the clarification. I'll leave the spelling changes as they 
are.

> 
>> Both American and British English spellings are allowed within the
>> kernel documentation.  There is no need to fix one by replacing it with
>> the other.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon