On 2 Mar 2026, at 16:08, Timothy Redaelli via dev wrote:
> The checkpatch spelling test uses the sentence "an intentionaly
> misspelt word" and expects only "intentionaly" to be flagged.
> However, "misspelt" is the British English past tense of
> "misspell" and is not present in all en_US enchant dictionaries.
> On systems where the en_US dictionary does not include "misspelt"
> (e.g. Fedora with hunspell-en-US), it gets flagged as a
> misspelling too, causing the test to fail.
>
> Replace "misspelt" with "misspelled", which is the standard
> American English form and is universally recognized by en_US
> dictionaries.
>
> CC: Eli Oliver <[email protected]>
> Fixes: d2f1ca089ed1 ("checkpatch: Add simple python comment spell checking.")
> Signed-off-by: Timothy Redaelli <[email protected]>
Thanks for catching this, Timothy. The change looks good to me.
//Eelco
Acked-by: Eelco Chaudron <[email protected]>
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