Re: [PATCH] tracing/tools: fix a couple of spelling mistakes

From: Viktor.Rosendahl
Date: Tue Feb 16 2021 - 10:19:47 EST


Hi,

Thanks for finding these mistakes.

On Tue, 2021-02-16 at 14:08 +0000, Colin King wrote:

> printf(
> -"Warning! Using trivial random nummer seed, since %s not available\n",
> +"Warning! Using trivial random number seed, since %s not available\n",
> DEV_URANDOM);
> fflush(stdout);
> *seed = i;
> @@ -1711,7 +1711,7 @@ static void show_usage(void)
> "\t\t\tbeginning, end, and backtrace.\n\n"
>
> "-g, --graph\t\tEnable the display-graph option in trace_option. This\n"
> -"\t\t\toption causes ftrace to show the functionph of how\n"
> +"\t\t\toption causes ftrace to show the graph of how\n"
> "\t\t\tfunctions are calling other functions.\n\n"

This is a large improvement but since the corrected word is so much shorter, we
would ideally move the first word of the next line to this line as well:

"\t\t\toption causes ftrace to show the graph of how functions\n"
"\t\t\tare calling other functions.\n\n"

best regards,

Viktor

>
> "-c, --policy POL\tRun the program with scheduling policy POL. POL can be\n"