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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: "U-Boot Version 2 (barebox)" <barebox@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: a couple consistent misspellings that could be fixed
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 21:09:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140626190937.GF14257@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.11.1406261425060.31619@localhost>

On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 02:28:21PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   being the pedant that i am, i notice the following widespread
> misspellings in the barebox codebase:
> 
> * "existance" (should be existence)
> 
>   actually, not that widespread, only three, all comments so easy to
> fix
> 
> * "persistant" (should be persistent)
> 
>   this one is much uglier -- a couple dozen, including its use in
> runnable code itself. just run:
> 
>   $ grep -r persistant *

Uh, quite a few.

> 
> to see what i mean.
> 
>   what's the policy for fixing a spelling error that spills over from
> the comments into compilable code itself?

You can fix them all in a single patch, no need to split it up. At least
not as long there's not a function which uses 'persistent' and
'persistant' as two different variables ;)

Sascha

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2014-06-26 18:28 Robert P. J. Day
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