From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: "Charles Clément" <caratorn@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] mm: spelling error in a comment
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:27:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070402152719.e7b622ba.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070402210636.GA14216@tux>
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:06:36 +0200 Charles Clement wrote:
>
> Fix spelling in a comment in mm/slab.c.
>
> Signed-off-by: Charles Clement <caratorn@gmail.com>
Alexey can grab this if he wants to (or Adrian could),
but here's what Andrew Morton has to say about such patches:
http://marc.info/?l=kernel-janitor-discuss&m=117360826232574&w=2
"...I prefer not to do spello and grammaro
fixes, unless they're in something user-visible: a printk or documentation.
Simply because there would be no end to it."
> ---
>
> Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5/mm/slab.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/mm/slab.c
> +++ linux-2.6.21-rc5/mm/slab.c
> @@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ struct kmem_cache {
>
> #define BATCHREFILL_LIMIT 16
> /*
> - * Optimization question: fewer reaps means less probability for unnessary
> + * Optimization question: fewer reaps means less probability for unnecessary
> * cpucache drain/refill cycles.
> *
> * OTOH the cpuarrays can contain lots of objects,
>
> --
> Charles Clement.
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~Randy
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 21:06 Charles Clément
2007-04-02 22:27 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2007-04-02 22:58 ` Richard Knutsson
2007-04-03 10:02 ` Charles Clément
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2007-04-02 14:51 Charles Clément
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