Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] dmaengine: bcm2835: Fix several spellos

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Wed Mar 13 2024 - 14:34:27 EST


On 3/13/24 09:49, Andrea della Porta wrote:
On 09:38 Wed 13 Mar , Florian Fainelli wrote:
On 3/13/24 08:26, Andrea della Porta wrote:
On 08:00 Wed 13 Mar , Florian Fainelli wrote:


On 3/13/2024 7:08 AM, Andrea della Porta wrote:
Fixed Codespell reported warnings about spelling and coding convention
violations, among which there are also a couple potential operator
precedence issue in macroes.

and s/macroes/macros/

right, sorry about that...



Signed-off-by: Andrea della Porta <andrea.porta@xxxxxxxx>

There are no spelling errors being fixed in this commit, this is purely
stylistic and conforming to the Linux coding style guidelines.

- /* detect a size missmatch */
- if (buf_len && (d->size != buf_len))
+ /* detect a size mismatch */
+ if (buf_len && d->size != buf_len)

Isn't 'missmatch' a spelling error? Maybe I can drop the word 'several', since it's
indeed only one...

Can we agree this was easy to miss when 99% of the changes are stylistic?
The summary is that the commit subject and the message are not describing
what this patch is about.
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Florian


I agree with you that I could've added '...and coding style fixes' to the subject
(while also dropping 'several'). The comment seems fine enough though. Maybe
you're suggesting to separate the patches into two, one dealing with spelling
errors and the other with coding conventions?

What I am suggesting is to be somewhat accurate about what you do in your patch. If there are 99% stylistic issues, then say so, and in the commit subject, say: by the way, typographic errors are also fixed. Or any variation of that. Anyway, there are others things to be sorted about this patch series than this specific one, it just happened to be the first I looked at.
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Florian

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