Re: [PATCH] Fix breakage caused by spelling 'fix'

[Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 14:57, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Michael Hayes wrote:
> >
> > This fixes a spelling "fix" that resulted in a compile error.
> > 
> > With apologies to Russell King.
> 
> Ugh, please make things like this just write out the full non-contracted 
> thing. Ie "cannot" is a perfectly fine word, we don't need to force 
> spelling errors.
> 
> 		Linus

For yet another alternative:

[steven@spc9 steven]$ cat -n hello.c
     1  #if 0
     2  /* This won't break anything */
     3  #include <bogus.h>
     4  #endif
     5
     6  #if 0
     7  * This won't compile
     8  #include <missing.h>
     9  #endif
    10
    11  #include <stdio.h>
    12  int main()
    13  {
    14          printf("Hello world!\n");
    15  }
[steven@spc9 steven]$ cc -c hello.c
hello.c:7:11: missing terminating ' character

--- linux-2.5.64/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h.orig	Thu Mar  6 15:19:17 2003
+++ linux-2.5.64/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h	Thu Mar  6 15:20:13 2003
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 
 #if 0
- * The following is to fool mkdep into generating the correct
- * dependencies.  Without this, it can't figure out that this
- * file does indeed depend on the cpu-*.h files.
+/* The following is to fool mkdep into generating the correct */
+/* dependencies.  Without this, it can't figure out that this */
+/* file does indeed depend on the cpu-*.h files.              */
 #include <asm/cpu-single.h>
 #include <asm/cpu-multi26.h>
 #include <asm/cpu-multi32.h>