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Date:      Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:22:10 +0200
From:      Ulrich =?utf-8?B?U3DDtnJsZWlu?= <uqs@spoerlein.net>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Finding typos using codespell
Message-ID:  <20110419122210.GL85668@acme.spoerlein.net>
In-Reply-To: <20110419111500.GA16509@muon.cran.org.uk>
References:  <20110419111500.GA16509@muon.cran.org.uk>

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On Tue, 19.04.2011 at 12:15:00 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> There's a new tool that can be used to find spelling mistakes in code: codespell 
> from http://www.politreco.com has already been used to find mistakes in both 
> Linux and LLVM. I ran it on sys/ and it found lots of potential typos - the 
> full diff (which I know does contain some incorrect changes) can be found at 
> http://www.cran.org.uk/~brucec/freebsd/codespell_sys.diff .

Needs manual review, but I think this is very useful for the spelling
nazi challenged among us :-)

False positive, e.g.:
 {
-       struct ccb_immed_notify *inot;
+       struct ccb_immed_notify *into;
        mpt_tgt_state_t *tgt;

Cheers,
Uli



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