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[PATCH v3] docs: arm64: Fix typo "initalised" in booting.rst

From: Hemanth Selam <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-07 11:42:12
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Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

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 <redacted>
---

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

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