Re: [PATCH 0/5] driver core: fix typos and repeated words in comments
From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Sep 07 2026 - 13:39:01 EST
On 9/6/26 11:47 PM, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> This corrects 5 misspellings and repeated words in comments. Each is a
> separate patch so that any one of them can be dropped without touching
> the rest.
>
> Nothing outside comments changes. Every touched C file was checked by
> dropping its comments, replacing each string literal with a placeholder
> and collapsing whitespace; what remained was identical before and after,
> so the compiled code cannot differ.
>
> The mistakes were found with scripts/checkpatch.pl against the list in
> scripts/spelling.txt. The scanning, the edits and the changelogs were
> produced with Cursor running the claude-opus-5 model, from a request to
> find and fix spelling mistakes across the tree, and every correction was
> then re-checked by the comparison described above. Words that name an
> identifier were left alone deliberately, even when they read as typos,
> because correcting the prose would make the comment disagree with the
> code it describes.
>
> Tested by building x86_64 defconfig at v7.3-rc1-269-gbc35965f6940, which
> is clean. Nothing else was built, so any patch touching code that
> x86_64 defconfig does not compile has been read but not compiled.
>
> Hemanth Selam (5):
> driver core: fix typo "sucessfully" in comment
> thermal: fix typos in comments
> tools/thermal: fix typo "binded" in comments
> cpuidle: fix repeated word 'that' in comment
> ACPI: NUMA: fix typo in log message
>
> drivers/acpi/numa/srat.c | 2 +-
> drivers/base/power/clock_ops.c | 2 +-
> drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-tegra.c | 2 +-
> drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 2 +-
> drivers/thermal/thermal_of.c | 4 ++--
> drivers/thermal/ti-soc-thermal/ti-bandgap.c | 12 ++++++------
> include/uapi/linux/thermal.h | 8 ++++----
> tools/thermal/tmon/sysfs.c | 2 +-
> tools/thermal/tmon/tmon.h | 2 +-
> tools/thermal/tmon/tui.c | 2 +-
> 10 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
For the series:
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
thanks.
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~Randy