Re: [PATCH] docs: Fix spelling and grammatical issues

From: Purva Yeshi
Date: Tue Feb 04 2025 - 15:32:41 EST


On 04/02/25 20:47, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 2/4/25 05:48, Purva Yeshi wrote:
Fix several spelling and grammatical errors across multiple
documentation files.

Signed-off-by: Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst | 4 ++--
Documentation/hid/intel-ish-hid.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/hid/uhid.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/hwmon/abituguru-datasheet.rst | 8 ++++----
Documentation/hwmon/abituguru.rst | 2 +-
5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst b/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
index 9b82c7f896aa..073485f84793 100644
--- a/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ To support these disparate requirements, the Linux USB system provides
HID events to two separate interfaces:
* the input subsystem, which converts HID events into normal input
device interfaces (such as keyboard, mouse and joystick) and a
-normalised event interface - see Documentation/input/input.rst
+normalized event interface - see Documentation/input/input.rst

Is US spelling now mandated in the Linux kernel ?

No, from Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst:

Thank you for the clarification. I'll leave the spelling changes as they are.


Both American and British English spellings are allowed within the
kernel documentation. There is no need to fix one by replacing it with
the other.

Thanks,

jon