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

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Message-ID: <b55bf24c-4b45-4a6b-ae5b-7ded5bfcb25f@infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:39:25 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, 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"



On 10/14/25 11:22 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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.

oops, my bad.

-- 
~Randy