netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wireless: realtek: Fix the word association defautly de-faulty

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Message-ID: <X/RQeqAikxaCO2o0@Gentoo>
Date:   Tue, 5 Jan 2021 17:11:46 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
Cc:     Ping-Ke Shih <pkshih@...ltek.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        zhengbin13@...wei.com, baijiaju1990@...il.com,
        Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: wireless: realtek: Fix the word
 association defautly de-faulty

On 22:24 Tue 05 Jan 2021, Julian Calaby wrote:
>Hi Bhaskar,
>
>On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:48 PM Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 21:33 Tue 05 Jan 2021, Julian Calaby wrote:
>> >Hi Bhaskar,
>> >
>> >On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 9:19 PM Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> s/defautly/de-faulty/p
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
>> >> ---
>> >>  drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/trx.c | 2 +-
>> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/trx.c b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/trx.c
>> >> index c948dafa0c80..7d02d8abb4eb 100644
>> >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/trx.c
>> >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi/rtl8188ee/trx.c
>> >> @@ -814,7 +814,7 @@ bool rtl88ee_is_tx_desc_closed(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, u8 hw_queue, u16 index)
>> >>         u8 own = (u8)rtl88ee_get_desc(hw, entry, true, HW_DESC_OWN);
>> >>
>> >>         /*beacon packet will only use the first
>> >> -        *descriptor defautly,and the own may not
>> >> +        *descriptor de-faulty,and the own may not
>> >
>> >Really? "de-faultly" isn't any better than "defaultly" and in fact
>> >it's even worse as it breaks up the word "default".
>> >
>> hey, it was written as "defautly" ...and that was simple spelling mistake ..
>> so,corrected it.
>
>Er, no, that isn't the correct replacement. They're using "default" as
>a verb and mean "by default".
>
>The sentence makes no sense with "de-faulty" there instead.
>
>Ultimately though the entire comment barely makes sense, so the best
>way to fix this spelling mistake is to re-write the entire comment so
>it does. I would have suggested a new wording for it, but I don't know

hmmmm make sense...

>enough about what's going on here to parse the rest of it.
>
>So therefore someone who knows what's going on here needs to fix this

>and your change is just making this comment worse.
really??? Not sure about it.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Julian Calaby
>
>Email: julian.calaby@...il.com
>Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/julian.calaby/

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