Re: [PATCH] riscv: cacheinfo: fix typo of homogenous

[Randy Dunlap]

On 10/23/21 1:30 PM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:56:25 PDT (-0700), georgedanielmangum@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Updates 'homonogenous' to 'homogenous' in comment.
>
> I don't really know spelling that well, but checkpatch says
>
>     WARNING: 'homogenous' may be misspelled - perhaps 'homogeneous'?
>
> when applying this.  It looks like they're both words, but "homogeneous" is the right one?

Internet search to grammar.com says:

To summarise, Earlier, homogenous was used as a scientific term, mainly in biology, but now it is almost obsolete, being replaced by homologous. Whereas, homogeneous is a common word, very much in use and means having similar or comparable characteristics.

Several web sites agree that homogeneous is currently preferable.

> > Signed-off-by: hasheddan <georgedanielmangum@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> > index 90deabfe63ea..ff98546b1152 100644
> > --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> > +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
> > @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static struct cacheinfo *get_cacheinfo(u32 level, enum cache_type type)
> >      /*
> >       * Using raw_smp_processor_id() elides a preemptability check, but this
> >       * is really indicative of a larger problem: the cacheinfo UABI assumes
> > -     * that cores have a homonogenous view of the cache hierarchy.  That
> > +     * that cores have a homogenous view of the cache hierarchy.  That
> >       * happens to be the case for the current set of RISC-V systems, but
> >       * likely won't be true in general.  Since there's no way to provide
> >       * correct information for these systems via the current UABI we're


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~Randy