linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct spelling of "userspace"

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Message-ID: <87v7kh9wdu.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:22:05 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Akiyoshi Kurita
 <weibu@...admin.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>, Jonathan Cameron
 <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>, Shannon Nelson <sln@...main.com>, Jason
 Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: Correct spelling of
 "userspace"

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> writes:

> On 10/14/25 7:57 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@...admin.org> writes:
>> 
>>> The term "userspace" should be a single word. Fix the typo
>>> "userpace" accordingly.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Akiyoshi Kurita <weibu@...admin.org>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 2 +-
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>>> index a0cc017e4424..ed1f8f1e86c5 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
>>> @@ -186,6 +186,6 @@ More detailed explanation for tainting
>>>  
>>>   18) ``N`` if an in-kernel test, such as a KUnit test, has been run.
>>>  
>>> - 19) ``J`` if userpace opened /dev/fwctl/* and performed a FWTCL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE
>>> + 19) ``J`` if userspace opened /dev/fwctl/* and performed a FWTCL_RPC_DEBUG_WRITE
>>>       to use the devices debugging features. Device debugging features could
>>>       cause the device to malfunction in undefined ways.
>> 
>> Applied, thanks.
>
> Comparing to the "MSDOS" spelling patch:
>
> did you check/count "userspace" vs. "user space" vs. "user-space"
> in the kernel source tree?

No, but this patch was fixing "userpace", which is overtly wrong.  It
turns out that there's a surprising number of those, too, but still far
fewer.

jon