Codespell dictionary path is no longer absolute

From: Dwaipayan Ray
Date: Sun May 09 2021 - 11:42:44 EST


A year ago, the codespell dictionary was moved from
/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt to data/dictionary.txt under
the codespell_lib installation directory.

checkpatch.pl still has the default codespell path as
/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt.
Any new installations will now also need to specify --codespellfile
option along with --codespell.

Can auto detection of the dictionary path be enabled with something
like this?

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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 23697a6b1eaa..28ca5cfff2d5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -889,6 +889,9 @@ if (open(my $spelling, '<', $spelling_file)) {
}

if ($codespell) {
+ if (! -e "$codespellfile" && which("python") ne "") {
+ $codespellfile = `python -c "import os.path as op; import code
spell_lib; print(op.join(op.dirname(codespell_lib.__file__), 'data', 'dictiona
ry.txt'), end='')"`;
+ }
if (open(my $spelling, '<', $codespellfile)) {
while (<$spelling>) {
my $line = $_;
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Thanks,
Dwaipayan.