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

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon Jun 1 14:46:28 CEST 2026


22/04/2026 17:37, Bruce Richardson:
> 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>

Applied, thanks.





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