On 2 Mar 2026, at 17:19, Eelco Chaudron wrote:
> 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]>
I've applied the change to main.
//Eelco
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