[PATCH] firmware: efi: fix typo "existance" in comment

Hemanth Selam posted 1 patch 3 weeks ago
drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
[PATCH] firmware: efi: fix typo "existance" in comment
Posted by Hemanth Selam 3 weeks ago
Correct "existance" to "existence", reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using
the misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt.  Only touches comments, no
code changes.

Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
index 0327a39d31fa..846179b23160 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
  *
  * This code registers /sys/firmware/efi{,/efivars} when EFI is supported,
  * allowing the efivarfs to be mounted or the efivars module to be loaded.
- * The existance of /sys/firmware/efi may also be used by userspace to
+ * The existence of /sys/firmware/efi may also be used by userspace to
  * determine that the system supports EFI.
  */
 
-- 
2.48.1
Re: [PATCH] firmware: efi: fix typo "existance" in comment
Posted by Ard Biesheuvel 2 weeks, 1 day ago

On Fri, 4 Sep 2026, at 13:20, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Correct "existance" to "existence", reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using
> the misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt.  Only touches comments, no
> code changes.
>
> Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> index 0327a39d31fa..846179b23160 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/efi/efi.c
> @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
>   *
>   * This code registers /sys/firmware/efi{,/efivars} when EFI is supported,
>   * allowing the efivarfs to be mounted or the efivars module to be loaded.
> - * The existance of /sys/firmware/efi may also be used by userspace to
> + * The existence of /sys/firmware/efi may also be used by userspace to
>   * determine that the system supports EFI.
>   */
> 

Queued up in efi/next - thanks.