On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 09:19 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Andrew Morton > <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:15:24 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list. Several false > >> positives were removed, and several additional words added that were [] > > I have a feeling this is going to be a rat hole and that > > scripts/spelling.txt will grow to consume the planet. Oh well, whatev. > > What about making checkpatch use the codespell dictionay if codespell > is installed? > > Codespell is in Ubuntu 14.04LTS (but not in 12.04LTS). I'm a little concerned about false positives if that's done, but it seems simple enough. Maybe both of: codespell: /usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt lintian: /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html