Add the missing "i" to "initalised" in the description of the
spin-table cpu-release-addr property.

The British spelling is deliberate.  doc-guide/contributing.rst asks
that both American and British spellings be left alone, so only the typo
is corrected, not the dialect.  checkpatch.pl suggests "initialized"
here because scripts/spelling.txt maps this entry to the American form;
that is addressed separately.

Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>
---

Notes:
    Changes since v2:
     - the guidance lives in doc-guide/contributing.rst, not
       doc-guide/checkpatch.rst as v2 claimed (Weijie Yuan)
     - drop the v1 narrative and the redundant "only the documentation text
       changes" line
    
    Changes since v1:
     - keep "initialised" rather than switching the file to "initialized",
       so the British spelling is preserved (Randy Dunlap)

 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
-- 
2.48.1

On Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:11:46 +0530, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Add the missing "i" to "initalised" in the description of the
> spin-table cpu-release-addr property.
> 
> The British spelling is deliberate.  doc-guide/contributing.rst asks
> that both American and British spellings be left alone, so only the typo
> is corrected, not the dialect.  checkpatch.pl suggests "initialized"
> here because scripts/spelling.txt maps this entry to the American form;
> that is addressed separately.
> 
> [...]

Applied to arm64 (for-next/misc), thanks!

[1/1] docs: arm64: Fix typo "initalised" in booting.rst
      https://git.kernel.org/arm64/c/8c37fb7f67ce

On 9/7/26 4:41 AM, Hemanth Selam wrote:
> Add the missing "i" to "initalised" in the description of the
> spin-table cpu-release-addr property.
> 
> The British spelling is deliberate.  doc-guide/contributing.rst asks
> that both American and British spellings be left alone, so only the typo
> is corrected, not the dialect.  checkpatch.pl suggests "initialized"
> here because scripts/spelling.txt maps this entry to the American form;
> that is addressed separately.
> 
> Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
> Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <hemanth.selam@gmail.com>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Thanks.

> ---
> 
> Notes:
>     Changes since v2:
>      - the guidance lives in doc-guide/contributing.rst, not
>        doc-guide/checkpatch.rst as v2 claimed (Weijie Yuan)
>      - drop the v1 narrative and the redundant "only the documentation text
>        changes" line
>     
>     Changes since v1:
>      - keep "initialised" rather than switching the file to "initialized",
>        so the British spelling is preserved (Randy Dunlap)
> 
>  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

-- 
~Randy