Re: [RFC] Fix typos

[Randy Dunlap]

On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:00:38 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote:

> On 09/02/10 12:31, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 16:18, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'd take most of the corrections in Documentation/, but in general,
> >> I don't think that it's a good idea without some careful review.
> > 
> > I plan to review it if it's indeed worth fixing those typos. I already
> > fixed several false positives like  "rela" being changed to "real",
> > but since it's a 1.8 MB patch I think it's better to ask first before
> > making any other review.
> > 
> >>
> >> E.g.:
> >>
> >> 1.  changing thru to through isn't needed IMO.
> >> Can you add "thru" to your dictionary?
> > Yes, no problem
> > 
> >>
> >> 2.
> >> -(Warning, pulses on ACK ar inverted by transistor, irq is rised up on sync
> >> +(Warning, pulses on ACK ar inverted by transistor, irq is rose up on sync
> >>
> > Humn.. indeed this seems to be a bad typo in my dictionary.
> > 
> >> I'm not so sure about "is rose up" being better.  and what about "ar"?
> > 
> > I'm only changing words with 3 chars or more, because otherwise I
> > would have a lot of false positives, but I think I can add this word
> > without much trouble.
> > 
> 
> Mike's suggested change is good here.
> 
> >>
> >> I saw a few others that I could comment on, but I lost them in the 1.8 MB patch file.
> > 
> > If you say it's good, I can review it more carefully.
> 
> It looks good for Documentation/.
> 
> And fixing typos is certainly something that we want to do in
> user-visible messages, like printk strings.

Kconfig prompts and help text are also user-visible strings.

I just saw this one:

bool "ET&T USB series TC4UM/TC5UH touchscreen controler support" if EMBEDDED

in drivers/input/touchscreen/Kconfig.

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~Randy
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