From: Michael Hayes <mike@aiinc.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix breakage caused by spelling 'fix'
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 14:09:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303062209.h26M9i320362@aiinc.aiinc.ca> (raw)
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, 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.
Nice to see that _someone_ cares :-)
Okay, here it is again with "cannot".
diff -ur a/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h b/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h
--- a/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h Tue Mar 4 19:29:20 2003
+++ b/include/asm-arm/proc-fns.h Thu Mar 6 14:03:14 2003
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
#if 0
* The following is to fool mkdep into generating the correct
- * dependencies. Without this, it can't figure out that this
+ * dependencies. Without this, it cannot figure out that this
* file does indeed depend on the cpu-*.h files.
#include <asm/cpu-single.h>
#include <asm/cpu-multi26.h>
next reply other threads:[~2003-03-06 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-06 22:09 Michael Hayes [this message]
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2003-03-06 21:41 [PATCH] Fix breakage caused by spelling 'fix' Michael Hayes
2003-03-06 21:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-06 22:37 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-06 21:59 ` Marc-Christian Petersen
2003-03-06 22:28 ` John Bradford
2003-03-06 22:48 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-06 22:27 ` Russell King
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