From: John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>
To: m.c.p@wolk-project.de (Marc-Christian Petersen)
Cc: mike@aiinc.ca, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix breakage caused by spelling 'fix'
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 22:28:34 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303062228.h26MSYYj000170@81-2-122-30.bradfords.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303062259.20480.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> from "Marc-Christian Petersen" at Mar 06, 2003 10:59:20 PM
> > This fixes a spelling "fix" that resulted in a compile error.
> > With apologies to Russell King.
> > 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 11:46:15 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 cant figure out that this
> A spelling fix should be a right spelling fix ;)
>
> So either "cannot" or "can not" but not "cant" :)
"Can not" is technically wrong.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104691562715435&w=2
I also fell in to this trap.
John.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-06 22:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
2003-03-06 22:48 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-03-06 22:27 ` Russell King
2003-03-06 22:09 Michael Hayes
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