On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 8:52 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/21/22 11:36, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > "Slark Xiao" <slark_xiao@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> May I know the maintainer of one subsystem could merge the changes
> >> contains lots of subsystem? I also know this could be filtered by
> >> grep and sed command, but that patch would have dozens of maintainers
> >> and reviewers.
> >
> > Certainly I don't think I can merge a patch touching 166 files across
> > the tree. This will need to be broken down by subsystem, and you may
> > well find that there are some maintainers who don't want to deal with
> > this type of minor fix.
>
> We have also seen cases where "the the" should be replaced by "then the"
> or some other pair of words, so some of these changes could fall into
> that category.
Yes we have:
--- a/arch/m68k/coldfire/intc-2.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/coldfire/intc-2.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
* family, the 5270, 5271, 5274, 5275, and the 528x family which
have two such
* controllers, and the 547x and 548x families which have only one of them.
*
- * The external 7 fixed interrupts are part the the Edge Port unit of these
+ * The external 7 fixed interrupts are part the Edge Port unit of these
* ColdFire parts. They can be configured as level or edge triggered.
*
* (C) Copyright 2009-2011, Greg Ungerer <gerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
And that's already been fixed
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6fe2468a-9664-30f7-7f17-9093289eb4b6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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