Re: [PATCH v2] docs: arm64: Fix typo "initalised" in booting.rst

From: Weijie Yuan

Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 06:30:26 EST


On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 02:42:48PM +0530, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Correct the misspelling "initalised" in the arm64 booting document.
>
> v1 changed it to "initialized", which quietly moved the file from
> British to American spelling. Randy Dunlap pointed out that
> doc-guide/checkpatch.rst asks that both spellings be left alone, so

doc-guide/contributing.rst ?

There's no checkpatch.rst in doc-guide, I guess.

> this uses "initialised" and only fixes the missing "i".

And, future readers may not know what was in v1. Or rather, I don't
think mentioning v1 here adds much.

But I think a brief summary of your discussion with Randy in the
previous round might be useful.?

> checkpatch.pl suggested "initialized" because scripts/spelling.txt maps
> these two entries to the American form; that is addressed separately.

> Only the documentation text changes.

Nit: You seem to prefer spelling this out, but the diff is fairly
straightforward. Do we really need to mention it explicitly?

> Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5

Of course, I don't know whether this commit message was written by it.
;-)