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From: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
To: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
Cc: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	mike@aiinc.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 13:20:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E612409.7090603@kegel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1046546305.10138.415.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>

Steven Cole wrote:
> Once you've loosed your beast upon the tree, I'd suggest that you
> very carefully look through the resulting diff for inappropriate
> corrections and redact the unnecessary hunks.  In the spelling fixes
> which I sent to Linus, I redacted hunks which didn't need fixing.  For
> example, Linus making fun of Sun folks' ability to spell, etc. and some
> comments in French or German for which the spelling was correct in those
> languages.

Good points.

> In addition to making fixes in the comments in the source, all of
> Documentation should be fair game.

Yeah, but that's easy :-)

> Then you'll have to contend with the folks whose out-of-tree patches
> you've borked.

That's a good argument for making the spellfix program polished
enough that everyone can use it, I think.  Those maintaining
out-of-tree patches can run the tool on their tree, and regenerate
diffs.

- Dan



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  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-01 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-27  6:59 [PATCH] kernel source spellchecker Dan Kegel
     [not found] ` <1046330232.15763.97.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2003-03-01  5:38   ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 14:11     ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 17:13       ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 18:54       ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 19:18         ` Steven Cole
2003-03-01 21:20           ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2003-03-02  3:45             ` jw schultz
2003-03-02  2:08           ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02  3:02             ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02  3:54               ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02  8:04                 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02  4:16               ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02  8:21                 ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02  8:40                   ` jw schultz
2003-03-02 11:21                 ` David Woodhouse
2003-03-02 13:49                   ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 14:55                     ` David Woodhouse
2003-03-02 22:44                     ` Alan Cox
2003-03-02 22:59                       ` John Bradford
2003-03-03  2:29                       ` Dan Kegel
     [not found]                     ` <3E62C0FF.1090700@kegel.com>
     [not found]                       ` <1046661777.7527.518.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>
2003-03-03  5:36                         ` Dan Kegel
     [not found]                         ` <3E62E4C0.9070103@kegel.com>
     [not found]                           ` <1046668274.7527.533.camel@spc1.mesatop.com>
2003-03-03  5:48                             ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02 15:35                   ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-02  8:09               ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02  8:13                 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02  3:29             ` Steven Cole
2003-03-01 19:30         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 20:33           ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-01 21:25           ` Dan Kegel
2003-03-01 21:25             ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02  9:15               ` John Bradford
2003-03-02  9:31                 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2003-03-02  3:16         ` Horst von Brand
2003-03-01 15:57 shaheed
2003-03-01 16:35 ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-01 18:01   ` shaheed
2003-03-01 18:31     ` Jörn Engel
2003-03-05 18:10   ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] <20030301160017$56fc@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-01 18:39 ` Pascal Schmidt
2003-03-02 18:56 Jared Daniel J. Smith
2003-03-02 17:22 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-02 17:47   ` Werner Almesberger
2003-03-02 18:28     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-03-02 18:46 ` Steven Cole
2003-03-02 22:32   ` Alan Cox

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