Re: [PATCH] Cleanup: replace prefered with preferred

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On 10/23/19 4:56 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 02:41:45PM -0700, Mark Salyzyn wrote:
Replace all occurrences of prefered with preferred to make future
checkpatch.pl's happy.  A few places the incorrect spelling is
matched with the correct spelling to preserve existing user space API.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
I'd fix such things when the code is otherwise change and scope this
patch only to Documentation/. There is no pragmatic benefit of doing
this for the code.

/Jarkko

The pragmatic benefit comes with the use of an ABI/API checker (which is a 'distro' thing, not a top of tree kernel thing) produces its map which is typically required to be co-located in the same tree as the kernel repository. Quite a few ABI/API update checkins result in a checkpatch.pl complaint about the misspelled elements being (re-)recorded due to proximity. We have a separate task to improve how it is tracked in Android to reduce milepost marker changes that result in sweeping changes to the database which would reduce the occurrences.

I will split this between pure and inert documentation/comments for now, with a followup later for the code portion which understandably is more controversial.

Cleanup is the least appreciated part of kernel maintenance ;-}.

Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn




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