Re: [PATCH] Documentation: wmi: lenovo-wmi-other: Document intentional BIOS misspelling

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Sun Jul 19 2026 - 13:44:25 EST


Yahya Toubali <yahya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The spelling "Minumum" in the FanMinSpeed entry is intentionally kept
> as-is because it reflects the actual string returned by the system BIOS.
> Add an explanatory note to prevent future redundant spelling-fix submissions.
>
> Suggested-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yahya Toubali <yahya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks Mark and Jon for the context.
>
> That makes total sense. I dropped the housekeeping typo fix for now to avoid
> unnecessary churn, and this v4 keeps the BIOS spelling but adds the explicit
> note documenting the firmware quirk as suggested.

For future reference, text like this does not belong in the changelog.
You can put it below this line:

> ---

...and the maintainer won't have to strip it out when the patch is
applied.

> Documentation/wmi/devices/lenovo-wmi-other.rst | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

One other question: are you writing these patches yourself, or using
some sort of LLM to create them?

Thanks,

jon