Re: [PATCH 2/2] rust: pci: fix typo in Bar struct's comment

From: Marko Turk
Date: Sat Jan 03 2026 - 16:16:20 EST


On Sat, Jan 03, 2026 at 04:38:36PM +0100, Dirk Behme wrote:
> On 03.01.26 16:24, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > On Sat Jan 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM CET, Marko Turk wrote:
> >> inststance -> instance
> >
> > It's trivial in this case, but we usually write at least something along the
> > lines of "Fix a typo in the doc-comment of the Bar structure: 'inststance ->
> > instance'."
> >
> > Please also add a corresponding Fixes: tag.
>
> While looking at this some days ago as well I came up with
>
> Fixes: 3c2e31d717ac ("rust: pci: move I/O infrastructure to separate
> file")
>
> But that just moves the pre-existing typo from rust/kernel/pci.rs to
> rust/kernel/pci/io.rs. So I'm unsure if that move-only commit should
> be mentioned in Fixes:? Or if we should go back more to search for the
> commit introducing this typo?

The typo was introduced in the original commit where pci::Bar was added:
Fixes: bf9651f84b4e ("rust: pci: implement I/O mappable `pci::Bar`")

Should I use that for the Fixes: tag?

>
> Best regards
>
> Dirk
>
> Btw: While we are at this file, do we want to add an 'is' in line 57
> as well?
>
> // `pdev` valid by the invariants of `Device`. => ... is valid ...
>

Should I do that in the same commit?

Marko

>
> >> Signed-off-by: Marko Turk <mt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> rust/kernel/pci/io.rs | 2 +-
> >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/rust/kernel/pci/io.rs b/rust/kernel/pci/io.rs
> >> index 0d55c3139b6f..fba746c4dc5d 100644
> >> --- a/rust/kernel/pci/io.rs
> >> +++ b/rust/kernel/pci/io.rs
> >> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
> >> ///
> >> /// # Invariants
> >> ///
> >> -/// `Bar` always holds an `IoRaw` inststance that holds a valid pointer to the start of the I/O
> >> +/// `Bar` always holds an `IoRaw` instance that holds a valid pointer to the start of the I/O
> >> /// memory mapped PCI BAR and its size.
> >> pub struct Bar<const SIZE: usize = 0> {
> >> pdev: ARef<Device>,
> >> --
> >> 2.51.0
> >
> >
>