[PATCH] tree-wide: fix 'allow[s] to' grammar

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Wed Apr 22 17:37:27 CEST 2026


On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 04:18:53PM +0100, luca.boccassi at gmail.com wrote:
> From: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> 
> Lintian flags 'allow[s] to' as grammatically incorrect, as it
> requires an object before the next verb.
> 
> Fix docs, comments and son on by either switching to gerundinve or
> adding 'one' as the object.
> 
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allow to" "allow one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_graph_model_mcore_dispatch.h.3.gz:32]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allow to" "allow one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_mbuf_dyn.h.3.gz:167]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allow to" "allow one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_mbuf_history.h.3.gz:71]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_bpf_ethdev.h.3.gz:41]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_ethdev.h.3.gz:3423]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_ethdev.h.3.gz:5197]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_ethdev.h.3.gz:5224]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_event_crypto_adapter_runtime_params.3.gz:32]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_event_dma_adapter_runtime_params.3.gz:32]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_event_eth_rx_adapter_runtime_params.3.gz:32]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_event_eth_tx_adapter_runtime_params.3.gz:35]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_flow.h.3.gz:2669]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_graph.h.3.gz:222]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_mempool_objhdr.3.gz:33]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_mldev.h.3.gz:807]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_node_eth_api.h.3.gz:44]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_node_ip4_api.h.3.gz:73]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_node_ip6_api.h.3.gz:50]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_node_pkt_cls_api.h.3.gz:18]
> I: dpdk-doc: typo-in-manual-page "allows to" "allows one to" [usr/share/man/man3/rte_node_udp4_input_api.h.3.gz:42]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at gmail.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>


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