linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] iommu: Spelling s/KConfig/Kconfig/

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdUv=47vMmN1UXzFuPotjLJbHPewmz4Uozm+3DuiFasjFw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:35 +0100
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@...tes.org>, Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, iommu@...ts.linux.dev, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iommu: Spelling s/KConfig/Kconfig/

Hi Robin,

On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 at 16:16, Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@....com> wrote:
> On 2025-02-19 2:48 pm, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Fix two misspellings of "Kconfig".
>
> Honestly after 6 years and no obvious complaints I'd be inclined to just
> drop those two paragraphs referring to v4.x kernel behaviour, or indeed
> maybe make a move on the aforementioned removal of the whole thing....
>
> Otherwise, frankly when the same thing is referred to 4 different ways
> in the space of 6 sentences - "this Kconfig", "this config", "this
> option", "This Kconfig option", "this config" - I would argue that
> capitalisation is not the biggest issue with this text ;)

Note that now commit 0d2cdc35e805eb50 ("io_uring: Rename KConfig to
Kconfig") is in next-20250220, these are the only misspellings of
Kconfig in the whole tree. Let's hope they don't spread by copy-'n-paste
;-)

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
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