Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm: fix typos in comments

From: Philipp Stanner

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 08:33:37 EST


On Fri, 2026-09-04 at 17:34 +0530, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Fix typos in comments, reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using the
> misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt.  Only touches comments, no code
> changes.
>
> Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/dma-buf/sync_debug.h                           | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/parade-ps8622.c                 | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.c                  | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/tc358767.c                      | 6 +++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c          | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c                              | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds.c                 | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/power.c                         | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.h                       | 4 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/imx/dcss/dcss-ctxld.c                  | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/lsdc_drv.c                    | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_g200se.c               | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/tile.h                | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c                 | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_exec.c                 | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_led.c                  | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/ctxnv50.c       | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/gf100.c         | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/dss/dispc.c                    | 4 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c                     | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-novatek-nt36672a.c         | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-samsung-s6e63j0x03.c       | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_gem.c                          | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_lvds.c            | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c                 | 4 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c                     | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/panel-mipi-dbi.c                  | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c                         | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c                         | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_regs.h                         | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c                 | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/device_include/vm_basic_types.h | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/ttm_object.c                    | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h                    | 6 +++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c                | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.h                    | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_so.h                     | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c                | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/xlnx/zynqmp_dp.c                       | 2 +-
>  drivers/gpu/ipu-v3/ipu-prg.c                           | 2 +-
>  include/drm/drm_framebuffer.h                          | 4 ++--
>  include/drm/drm_plane.h                                | 2 +-
>  include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h                         | 2 +-
>  include/uapi/drm/vmwgfx_drm.h                          | 2 +-
>  kernel/cgroup/dmem.c                                   | 2 +-
>  45 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)

That's a lot of churn

>
> diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_debug.h b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_debug.h
>

[…]


> - /* DPI interface clock limitation: upto 100 MHz */
> + /* DPI interface clock limitation: up to 100 MHz */
>   if (mode->clock > 100000)
>   return MODE_CLOCK_HIGH;
>

[…]

>  
> -/* For multiple GPU driver instance co-exixt in the system */
> +/* For multiple GPU driver instance co-exist in the system */
>  
>

[…]

>  
> - /* set ltps timming 0, 1 */
> + /* set ltps timing 0, 1 */


Places like these are certainly candidates that one might want to git-
blame to figure out more about the background.

Not sure if the cost-benefit-ratio would then pay off?


P.