[PATCH] drm/atomic: Spelling fix in comments

Kunwu Chan chentao at kylinos.cn
Fri Oct 27 02:43:26 UTC 2023


Hi Hamza,
Thank you very much for your guidance and advice to me, I have revised 
it according to your suggestion.

On 2023/10/25 22:50, Hamza Mahfooz wrote:
> Hi Kunwu,
> 
> Can you make the tagline something along the lines of `drm/atomic
> helper: fix spelling mistake "preceeding" -> "preceding"`, in general to
> determine an appropriate prefix, you can see what previous commits used
> when making changes to files in your particular patch, e.g. using the
> following:
> 
> $ git log drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> On 10/25/23 04:26, Kunwu Chan wrote:
>> fix a typo in a comments.
> 
> For patch descriptions you should try to more descriptive.
> 
> So, something like "There is a spelling mistake in
> drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies()'s kernel doc. Fix it." would
> be better.
> 
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao at kylinos.cn>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 4 ++--
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c 
>> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
>> index 2444fc33dd7c..c3f677130def 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
>> @@ -2382,10 +2382,10 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit(struct 
>> drm_atomic_state *state,
>>   EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit);
>>   /**
>> - * drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies - wait for required 
>> preceeding commits
>> + * drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_dependencies - wait for required 
>> preceding commits
>>    * @old_state: atomic state object with old state structures
>>    *
>> - * This function waits for all preceeding commits that touch the same 
>> CRTC as
>> + * This function waits for all preceding commits that touch the same 
>> CRTC as
>>    * @old_state to both be committed to the hardware (as signalled by
>>    * drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done()) and executed by the hardware 
>> (as signalled
>>    * by calling drm_crtc_send_vblank_event() on the 
>> &drm_crtc_state.event).


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