Re: [External] : [PATCH] tools/x86: kvm: fix comment typo
From: Joseph Salisbury
Date: Mon Mar 16 2026 - 19:50:00 EST
On 3/16/26 2:35 PM, Joseph Salisbury wrote:
The file contains a spelling error in a source comment (compatability).I inadvertently added Fixes: and Cc: stable tags. If possible, please remove them as they are not appropriate for fixes to misspellings in code comments. If it's not possible to remove them, I can send a v2.
Typos in comments reduce readability and make text searches less reliable
for developers and maintainers.
Replace 'compatability' with 'compatibility' in the affected comment. This
is a comment-only cleanup and does not change behavior.
Fixes: c499d1f483a9 ("tools arch kvm: Sync kvm headers with the kernel sources")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
index 7ceff6583652..f7d6f22ce5ef 100644
--- a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
+++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/kvm.h
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ struct kvm_nested_state {
} hdr;
/*
- * Define data region as 0 bytes to preserve backwards-compatability
+ * Define data region as 0 bytes to preserve backwards-compatibility
* to old definition of kvm_nested_state in order to avoid changing
* KVM_{GET,PUT}_NESTED_STATE ioctl values.
*/