Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Frey <> | Subject | Seeking guidance on spelling fixes | Date | Sun, 18 Feb 2018 07:34:33 -0800 |
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I noticed a common spelling mistake in some Linux kernel code that I was reading the other day and it made me wonder how prevalent common spelling mistakes are in the kernel. I did some grepping and it seems that there are a large number of spelling mistakes. I did a bit of searching and I found (http://www.kegel.com/kerspell/) which includes some comments/tools relating to spelling and the Linux kernel.
I have gone ahead and corrected about 100 total instances based on 25 common misspellings. There are many, many more common misspellings that I could check, but I don't want to sink more time into this if the changes won't be accepted.
Is this type of change likely to be accepted? Right now I am making individual git commits for each correction. For example "aditional -> additional". I figured that it would be easier to review the list of replacements rather than a mega-patch which fixes many different errors. This way if any of the changes are controversial, I can easily rebase them out.
I am trying to only correct true misspellings. I'm not trying to choose the "most correct" spelling for cases where there are acceptable alternate spellings.
I've pushed the changes I have made so far to a "spelling_fixes" branch here: https://github.com/dpfrey/linux/commits/spelling_fixes just in case there is any question about what I am doing based on the above description.
Just to be clear, I'm not trying to get this portion of the work merged at this point. I'm trying to get a feel for whether I should keep working on this.
Thanks, David Frey
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