Re: [PATCH][next] dm vdo: Fix spelling mistake "postive" -> "positive"

From: Colin King (gmail)

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 15:42:34 EST


On 03/09/2026 20:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Thu, 3 Sep 2026, Matthew Sakai wrote:

I had to look at this for quite a while to figure out what was going on.
We made the same spelling error twice in the same function and somehow only
noticed the first one previously? Anyway,

Reviewed-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@xxxxxxxxxx>

On 9/3/26 11:23 AM, Colin Ian King wrote:
There is another spelling mistake in a vdo_log_error message that
I somehow overlooked last time. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
index 1d8375cc3c3e..043549b1fc2e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-vdo/dm-vdo-target.c
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ static int __must_check parse_slab_size(const char
*slab_str, block_count_t *sla
result = kstrtoull(slab_str, 10, &value);
if (result) {
- vdo_log_error("optional parameter error: invalid slab size,
must be a postive integer");
+ vdo_log_error("optional parameter error: invalid slab size,
must be a positive integer");
return -EINVAL;
}

My rule from years back was ... you find one typo, you "grep -rw"
the entire kernel tree.

Yup, normally do, somehow this slipped through :-(


rday

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