Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Avoid missing typo suggestions

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 09:55 +0300, Maxim Uvarov wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2020 at 03:39, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Maxim.

> > btw: My codespell dictionary file moved to
> > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt
> > 
> > and I had to use --codespell --codespellfile=(above) so
> > maybe there should be multiple lookups for this file
> > like the array below.
> > 
> > Are there other standard codespell dictionary locations?
> 
> It might be better to support standard and non standard locations.

It already does with the --codespellfile=<location> opti.

> I think it's better to request from codespell where his dictionary is.

Maybe a good idea, but looking at the codespell git, for
versions 1.17 on there are several standard dictionaries.
https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/tree/v1.17.1/codespell_lib/data

> I created ticket for this:
> https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/issues/1540

Even if codespell is updated, the script would have to deal
with older versions that don't support requesting that option.

cheers, Joe