Re: [PATCH 03/16] trivial: fix assorted "through" typos

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Sun Nov 01 2009 - 12:56:22 EST


On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:11:29 +0100 Tilman Schmidt wrote:

> Am 31.10.2009 11:17 schrieb Nigel Cunningham:
> > I've only looked at this one, but something caught my eye...
> >
> > André Goddard Rosa wrote:
> >> diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/cplb-mpu/cplbinit.c
> >> b/arch/blackfin/kernel/cplb-mpu/cplbinit.c
> >> index f7b9cdc..b52c1f8 100644
> >> --- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/cplb-mpu/cplbinit.c
> >> +++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/cplb-mpu/cplbinit.c
> >> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ void __init generate_cplb_tables_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
> >>
> >> #ifdef CONFIG_BFIN_EXTMEM_DCACHEABLE
> >> d_cache = CPLB_L1_CHBL;
> >> -#ifdef CONFIG_BFIN_EXTMEM_WRITETROUGH
> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_BFIN_EXTMEM_WRITETHROUGH
> >> d_cache |= CPLB_L1_AOW | CPLB_WT;
> >> #endif
> >> #endif
> >
> > "Surely that can't be the only time?", I thought. But it is - all of the
> > other #ifdefs are spelled correctly, so you're probably fixing a
> > hard-to-find bug here! Good catch!
> >
> > Makes me wonder if anyone's written a tool to find things like this -
> > #ifdefs that will never be defined...
>
> I seem to remember someone (Joe Perches?) did, and regularly posted
> results to LKML in the past, but at some point switched to publishing
> them on a web page instead.

It was Robert PJ Day.
See http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Kernel_cleanup


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