From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46118A90.4050708@student.ltu.se> Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:58:24 +0200 From: Richard Knutsson MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [KJ] [PATCH] mm: spelling error in a comment References: <20070402210636.GA14216@tux> <20070402152719.e7b622ba.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20070402152719.e7b622ba.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Randy Dunlap Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Charles_Cl=E9ment?= , linux-mm@kvack.org, kernel-janitors@lists.linux-foundation.org List-ID: Randy Dunlap wrote: > 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 >> > > 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." > > Also, regardless if it is a comment or not, I think it may be a good idea to put such uncommon mistakes in KJ's wiki under "Spelling mistakes" and let it all be taken care of once in a while. (http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Spelling_mistakes) Richard Knutsson -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org