[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] Fix various typos found by Lintian

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Sat Apr 25 19:47:09 CEST 2020


04/03/2020 16:28, Luca Boccassi:
> On Wed, 2020-03-04 at 14:34 +0000, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> > On 29/02/2020 16:37, luca.boccassi at gmail.com  wrote:
> > > Debian's linter is getting more and more annoy^^smart and now
> > > parses binaries
> > > for typos too - CC stable to get it off my back in the next release
> > 
> > Minor: Probably linter is better trained in the Queen's English than
> > me
> > or it could be personal preference, but 'one' seems to be referring
> > to
> > the user and it reads a bit strange for me. e.g.
> > 
> > "Slave %d capabilities doesn't allow one to allocate additional
> > queues"
> > "hardware specifications that allow one to handle virtual memory"
> > "Do not allow one to send packet if the maximum DMA.."
> > 
> > as opposed to
> > 
> > "Slave %d capabilities don't allow allocation of additional queues"
> > "hardware specifications that allow handling of virtual memory"
> > "Do not allow sending of a packet if the maximum DMA.."
> 
> You might be right - but the intent here is not to be correct, it's to
> get the linter to leave me alone :-)

I agree with Kevin that the wording "allow one to make" is strange.
Would lintian leave you alone with "allow making"?

Anyway the "allow to" sentences are not typos.
They could be reworded in a separate patch.

Patch partly applied, except the "allow one to" changes, thanks.




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