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.
;-)