Re: [PATCH 0/2] nvdimm: fix typos and repeated words in comments
From: Alison Schofield
Date: Thu Oct 15 2026 - 21:29:47 EST
On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 12:04:32PM +0530, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> This corrects 2 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.
This one is a NAK
Not going to churn for non user visible typos.
>
> Hemanth Selam (2):
> nvdimm: fix typos in comments
> tools/testing: fix repeated word 'from' in comment
>
> drivers/nvdimm/namespace_devs.c | 2 +-
> include/linux/libnvdimm.h | 2 +-
> tools/testing/nvdimm/test/nfit.c | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.48.1
>