Re: [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/mm: Fix spelling in hwpoison.rst

[Abhinav Saxena]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 11/6/24 10:30 PM, Abhinav Saxena wrote:
>> Fix spelling of "focusses" to "focuses" to follow standard English usage.
>> 
>
> We accept British spellings.
>
> internet says:
> "Both spellings are acceptable in American and British English."

Ah. I should've checked contributing.rst[1] first. checkpatch.pl flagged it
for me. I did not look more into it.

Thanks for the detailed reply!

[1] - Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst

>
> "Focused" is the past tense of the verb "focus" and can also be used as an adjective to mean clear. For example, "She had a focused approach in training". 
> The plural of the noun "focus" can be either "foci" or "focuses". 
>
>     FOCUS definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
>     ), plural, 3rd person singular present tense focuses , focusing , past tense, past participle focused language note: The spellings...
>     Collins Dictionary
>
> Focussed vs Focused | Spelling, Explanation & Examples - QuillBot
> Sep 10, 2024 — Published on September 10, 2024 by Trevor Marshall, MSc. Revised on October 29, 2024. Both focussed and focused are ac...
> QuillBot
> Spelling Tips: Focused or Focussed? | Australia's Best Writing Tips
> May 7, 2020 — Summary: Focused or Focussed? 'Focused' and 'focussed' are two spellings of the same word: Focused (one 's') is the sta...
> getproofed.com.au
>
>     Show all
>
> "
>> Checkpatch.pl reported this issue.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Abhinav Saxena <xandfury@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst b/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
>> index 483b72aa7c11..dd02fae484dc 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/mm/hwpoison.rst
>> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ To quote the overview comment::
>>  	hardware as being corrupted usually due to a 2bit ECC memory or cache
>>  	failure.
>>  
>> -	This focusses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
>> +	This focuses on pages detected as corrupted in the background.
>>  	When the current CPU tries to consume corruption the currently
>>  	running process can just be killed directly instead. This implies
>>  	that if the error cannot be handled for some reason it's safe to


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Abhinav Saxena