Re: [PATCH] Spelling fixes for consistent, dependent, persistent

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:13:20 +0000

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 04:11:08PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.999, 2003/02/07 08:11:08-08:00, elenstev@mesatop.com
>
> [PATCH] Spelling fixes for consistent, dependent, persistent
>
> This fixes the following common misspellings and their variants.
>
> consistant -> consistent
> dependant -> dependent
> persistant -> persistent
>
> <snip 83K patch>

Can we hold off on tree-wide 'corrections' like this until we at least
get closer to 2.6-test ? Doing these at this point in time really
screws over a lot of out-of-tree patches.

Oh, and Dependant is an allowed variation btw.[1][2]

Dave

[1] http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=dependant
[2] http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Dependant

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