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

From: Luca Ceresoli

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 11:40:14 EST


On Fri Sep 4, 2026 at 2:34 PM CEST, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 04/09/2026 15:13, Philipp Stanner wrote:
>> 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(-)

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>> Not sure if the cost-benefit-ratio would then pay off?
> I would skip these. Fixing a typo in a key-word (say, a register name)
> would be useful, but I'm not sure if any of these count.

I agree, and a patch touching so many files will be annoying to cherry-pick
due to conflicts.

I'd save LLM water and energy consumption for more valuable changes.

Luca

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