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

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Message-ID: <87jza5hh7m.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:17:49 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Purva Yeshi
 <purvayeshi550@...il.com>, 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

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:

> 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