Re: [PATCH 1/4] Documentation/arch: fix typo "initalised" in comment

From: Randy Dunlap

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 18:10:36 EST




On 9/4/26 3:51 AM, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Correct "initalised" to "initialized", reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl
> using the misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt. Only touches comments,
> no code changes.
>
> Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@xxxxxxxxx>

Yes, it's misspelled here. But please be aware of this (from
Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst):

Please note that some things are *not* typos and should not be "fixed":

- 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.

- The question of whether a period should be followed by one or two spaces
is not to be debated in the context of kernel documentation. Other
areas of rational disagreement, such as the "Oxford comma", are also
off-topic here.



> ---
> Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
> index 13ef311dace8..0d5f8709a5f5 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
> @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ following manner:
>
> - CPUs with a "spin-table" enable-method must have a 'cpu-release-addr'
> property in their cpu node. This property identifies a
> - naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initalised memory location.
> + naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initialized memory location.
>
> These CPUs should spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area of
> memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the

thanks.
--
~Randy