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Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm: fix typos in comments

From: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>
Date: 2026-09-04 12:34:18
Also in: cgroups, dri-devel, imx, linux-media, linux-renesas-soc, linux-sunxi, lkml

Hi,

On 04/09/2026 15:13, Philipp Stanner wrote:
On Fri, 2026-09-04 at 17:34 +0530, Hemanth Selam wrote:
quoted
Fix typos in comments, reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl using the
misspelling list in scripts/spelling.txt.  Only touches comments, no code
changes.

Assisted-by: Cursor:claude-opus-5
Signed-off-by: Hemanth Selam <redacted>
---
  drivers/dma-buf/sync_debug.h                           | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/parade-ps8622.c                 | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/samsung-dsim.c                  | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/bridge/tc358767.c                      | 6 +++---
  drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_dp_mst_topology.c          | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c                              | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/oaktrail_lvds.c                 | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/power.c                         | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/psb_drv.h                       | 4 ++--
  drivers/gpu/drm/imx/dcss/dcss-ctxld.c                  | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/loongson/lsdc_drv.c                    | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/mgag200/mgag200_g200se.c               | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/tile.h                | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_bios.c                 | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_exec.c                 | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_led.c                  | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/ctxnv50.c       | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nvkm/engine/gr/gf100.c         | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/dss/dispc.c                    | 4 ++--
  drivers/gpu/drm/omapdrm/omap_gem.c                     | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-novatek-nt36672a.c         | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-samsung-s6e63j0x03.c       | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/qxl_gem.c                          | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/renesas/rcar-du/rcar_lvds.c            | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/scheduler/sched_main.c                 | 4 ++--
  drivers/gpu/drm/sun4i/sun4i_tcon.c                     | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/tiny/panel-mipi-dbi.c                  | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_pool.c                         | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_hdmi.c                         | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/vc4/vc4_regs.h                         | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/virtio/virtgpu_ioctl.c                 | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/device_include/vm_basic_types.h | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/ttm_object.c                    | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h                    | 6 +++---
  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c                | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_kms.h                    | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_so.h                     | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_surface.c                | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/drm/xlnx/zynqmp_dp.c                       | 2 +-
  drivers/gpu/ipu-v3/ipu-prg.c                           | 2 +-
  include/drm/drm_framebuffer.h                          | 4 ++--
  include/drm/drm_plane.h                                | 2 +-
  include/uapi/drm/nouveau_drm.h                         | 2 +-
  include/uapi/drm/vmwgfx_drm.h                          | 2 +-
  kernel/cgroup/dmem.c                                   | 2 +-
  45 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
That's a lot of churn
quoted
diff --git a/drivers/dma-buf/sync_debug.h b/drivers/dma-buf/sync_debug.h
[…]

quoted
-	/* DPI interface clock limitation: upto 100 MHz */
+	/* DPI interface clock limitation: up to 100 MHz */
  	if (mode->clock > 100000)
  		return MODE_CLOCK_HIGH;
[…]
quoted
  
-/* For multiple GPU driver instance co-exixt in the system */
+/* For multiple GPU driver instance co-exist in the system */
  
[…]
quoted
  
-	/* set ltps timming 0, 1 */
+	/* set ltps timing 0, 1 */

Places like these are certainly candidates that one might want to git-
blame to figure out more about the background.

Not sure if the cost-benefit-ratio would then pay off?
I would skip these. Fixing a typo in a key-word (say, a register name) 
would be useful, but I'm not sure if any of these count.

  Tomi
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