Re: [PATCH] sched/psi.c: Rudimentary typo fixes

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Mar 26 2021 - 14:42:10 EST


On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:00:18PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 06:12:33PM +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> >
> > s/possible/possible/
> > s/ exceution/execution/
> > s/manupulations/manipulations/
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/sched/psi.c | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> > index 967732c0766c..316ebc57a115 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
> > @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
> > * states, we would have to conclude a CPU SOME pressure number of
> > * 100%, since *somebody* is waiting on a runqueue at all
> > * times. However, that is clearly not the amount of contention the
> > - * workload is experiencing: only one out of 256 possible exceution
> > + * workload is experiencing: only one out of 256 possible execution
>
> I thought this was the french spelling.
>
> Joking aside, the corrections look right, but I also had no trouble
> understanding what those sentences mean. Typos happen, plus we have a
> lot of non-native speakers who won't use perfect spelling or grammar.
>
> So for me, the bar is "this can be easily understood", not "needs to
> be perfect English", and I'd say let's skip patches like these unless
> they fix something truly unintelligble.

Ignore this robot, lots of people already have a special mail rule for
him. On top of that, this spelling mistake was already fixed by Ingo in:

3b03706fa621 ("sched: Fix various typos")

Which is part of a series of such patches to head off the endless,
mindless, stream of this.