Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Correct the misspelling "initalised" in the arm64 booting document.
v1 changed it to "initialized", which quietly moved the file from
British to American spelling. Randy Dunlap pointed out that
doc-guide/checkpatch.rst asks that both spellings be left alone, so
this uses "initialised" and only fixes the missing "i".
checkpatch.pl suggested "initialized" because scripts/spelling.txt maps
these two entries to the American form; that is addressed separately.
Only the documentation text changes.
Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
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Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
index 13ef311dace8..891fd22f7229 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/booting.rst
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ following manner:
- CPUs with a "spin-table" enable-method must have a 'cpu-release-addr'
property in their cpu node. This property identifies a
- naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initalised memory location.
+ naturally-aligned 64-bit zero-initialised memory location.
These CPUs should spin outside of the kernel in a reserved area of
memory (communicated to the kernel by a /memreserve/ region in the
On Mon, Sep 07, 2026 at 02:42:48PM +0530, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Correct the misspelling "initalised" in the arm64 booting document.
>
> v1 changed it to "initialized", which quietly moved the file from
> British to American spelling. Randy Dunlap pointed out that
> doc-guide/checkpatch.rst asks that both spellings be left alone, so
doc-guide/contributing.rst ?
There's no checkpatch.rst in doc-guide, I guess.
> this uses "initialised" and only fixes the missing "i".
And, future readers may not know what was in v1. Or rather, I don't
think mentioning v1 here adds much.
But I think a brief summary of your discussion with Randy in the
previous round might be useful.?
> checkpatch.pl suggested "initialized" because scripts/spelling.txt maps
> these two entries to the American form; that is addressed separately.
> Only the documentation text changes.
Nit: You seem to prefer spelling this out, but the diff is fairly
straightforward. Do we really need to mention it explicitly?
> Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Of course, I don't know whether this commit message was written by it.
;-)
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