Re: [PATCH] Fix name of Russell King in various comments

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Thu Jul 10 2008 - 03:53:46 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:27:13 +0200 Uwe Kleine-K__nig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This patch was created by
> >
> > git grep -E -l 'Rus(el|s?e)l King' | xargs -r -t perl -p -i -e 's/Rus(el|s?e)l King/Russell King/g'
> >
> > Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K__nig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/usb/host/ohci-lh7a404.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/usb/host/ohci-s3c2410.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/usb/host/ohci-sa1111.c | 2 +-
> > include/asm-avr32/setup.h | 2 +-
> > 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c
> > index 1b9abdb..2ec3584 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-au1xxx.c
> > @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
> > * Bus Glue for AMD Alchemy Au1xxx
> > *
> > * Written by Christopher Hoover <ch@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > - * Based on fragments of previous driver by Rusell King et al.
> > + * Based on fragments of previous driver by Russell King et al.
>
> Would the patch be smaller if we switched over to "Rusell" everywhere?
I think no, the patch would be bigger. Even if you would only change
all occurences of "Russell King" to "Rusell King" this would affect ~500
lines in my working copy. :-)

> If so, we may as well do that.
So no. :-) Moreover as I'm a bit sensitive for misspellings of my name,
too, I definitly support the patch as is.

Best regards
Uwe

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