Re: [PATCH] Big typo patch

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jul 31 2017 - 11:57:26 EST


On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 01:29:58PM +0200, Franquet Loic wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please find below a large typo patch for Linux. The patch should also fix some functions impacted by typos.
> To my knowledge it's the biggest typo patch for Linux.
>
> Patch size = 1516K
> 2028 corrected files.
>
> Thanks all, best regards
>
> Signed-off-by: Loic Franquet <franquet.loic@xxxxxxxxx>
>

Hi,

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