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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: look for common misspellings
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On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 09:19 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 12:52 AM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:15:24 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> >> Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list. Several false
> >> positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
[]
> > I have a feeling this is going to be a rat hole and that
> > scripts/spelling.txt will grow to consume the planet. Oh well, whatev.
>
> What about making checkpatch use the codespell dictionay if codespell
> is installed?
>
> Codespell is in Ubuntu 14.04LTS (but not in 12.04LTS).

I'm a little concerned about false positives if that's
done, but it seems simple enough.

Maybe both of:

codespell: /usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt
lintian: /usr/share/lintian/data/spelling/corrections





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