[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Fix various typos found by Lintian

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Jun 16 14:44:24 CEST 2020


26/04/2020 11:49, Luca Boccassi:
> On Sat, 2020-04-25 at 19:47 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 04/03/2020 16:28, Luca Boccassi:
> > > On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 14:34 +0000, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> > > > On 29/02/2020 16:37, luca.boccassi at gmail.com  wrote:
> > > > > Debian's linter is getting more and more annoy^^smart and now
> > > > > parses binaries
> > > > > for typos too - CC stable to get it off my back in the next
> > > > > release
> > > > 
> > > > Minor: Probably linter is better trained in the Queen's English
> > > > than
> > > > me
> > > > or it could be personal preference, but 'one' seems to be
> > > > referring
> > > > to
> > > > the user and it reads a bit strange for me. e.g.
> > > > 
> > > > "Slave %d capabilities doesn't allow one to allocate additional
> > > > queues"
> > > > "hardware specifications that allow one to handle virtual memory"
> > > > "Do not allow one to send packet if the maximum DMA.."
> > > > 
> > > > as opposed to
> > > > 
> > > > "Slave %d capabilities don't allow allocation of additional
> > > > queues"
> > > > "hardware specifications that allow handling of virtual memory"
> > > > "Do not allow sending of a packet if the maximum DMA.."
> > > 
> > > You might be right - but the intent here is not to be correct, it's
> > > to
> > > get the linter to leave me alone :-)
> > 
> > I agree with Kevin that the wording "allow one to make" is strange.
> > Would lintian leave you alone with "allow making"?
> > 
> > Anyway the "allow to" sentences are not typos.
> > They could be reworded in a separate patch.
> > 
> > Patch partly applied, except the "allow one to" changes, thanks.
> 
> It probably would work - will check in the next cycle.

What are the news from Lintian?




More information about the dev mailing list