Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: fix spelling typos

[Mark Pearson]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2026, at 12:56 PM, Yahya Toubali wrote:
> Fix 'Minumum' -> 'Minimum' in lenovo-wmi-other.rst and
> 'maintainance' -> 'maintenance' in housekeeping.rst.
> These were flagged by checkpatch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yahya Toubali <yahya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst        | 2 +-
>  Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst 
> b/Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst
> index ccb0a88b9cb3..71ba5d86f249 100644
> --- a/Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/housekeeping.rst
> @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ extreme workloads can't stand, such as in some DPDK 
> usecases.
> 
>  The kernel work moved away by CPU isolation is commonly described as
>  "housekeeping" because it includes ground work that performs cleanups,
> -statistics maintainance and actions relying on them, memory release,
> +statistics maintenance and actions relying on them, memory release,
>  various deferrals etc...
> 
>  Sometimes housekeeping is just some unbound work (unbound workqueues,
> diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst 
> b/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst
> index 011054d64eac..65cb78ef285a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst
> @@ -163,5 +163,5 @@ data using the `bmfdec 
> <https://github.com/pali/bmfdec>`_ utility:
>      [WmiDataId(1), read, Description("Mode.")] uint32 NumOfFans;
>      [WmiDataId(2), read, Description("Fan ID."), 
> WmiSizeIs("NumOfFans")] uint32 FanId[];
>      [WmiDataId(3), read, Description("Maximum Fan Speed."), 
> WmiSizeIs("NumOfFans")] uint32 FanMaxSpeed[];
> -    [WmiDataId(4), read, Description("Minumum Fan Speed."), 
> WmiSizeIs("NumOfFans")] uint32 FanMinSpeed[];
> +    [WmiDataId(4), read, Description("Minimum Fan Speed."), 
> WmiSizeIs("NumOfFans")] uint32 FanMinSpeed[];
>    };

The minumum fix has been proposed a few times already. It's a miss-spell that comes from the BIOS, so is deliberately wrong.

That being said - I vote we correct it so that we stop getting patches that want to fix it.
In the interests of not seeing it again:

Reviewed-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@xxxxxxxxx>

Mark