[PATCH v2] docs: arm64: Fix typo "initalised" in booting.rst

Hemanth Selam posted 1 patch 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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[PATCH v2] docs: arm64: Fix typo "initalised" in booting.rst
Posted by Hemanth Selam 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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
Re: [PATCH v2] docs: arm64: Fix typo "initalised" in booting.rst
Posted by Weijie Yuan 2 weeks, 4 days ago
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.
;-)