[PATCH] riscv: cacheinfo: fix typo of homogenous

[Randy Dunlap]

On 10/23/21 1:30 PM, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Oct 2021 13:56:25 PDT (-0700), georgedanielmangum at gmail.com wrote:
>> Updates 'homonogenous' to 'homogenous' in comment.
> 
> I don't really know spelling that well, but checkpatch says
> 
>     WARNING: 'homogenous' may be misspelled - perhaps 'homogeneous'?
> 
> when applying this.  It looks like they're both words, but "homogeneous" is the right one?
> 

Internet search to grammar.com says:

To summarise, Earlier, homogenous was used as a scientific term, mainly in biology, but now it is almost obsolete, being replaced by homologous. Whereas, homogeneous is a common word, very much in use and means having similar or comparable characteristics.

Several web sites agree that homogeneous is currently preferable.

>>
>> Signed-off-by: hasheddan <georgedanielmangum at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
>> index 90deabfe63ea..ff98546b1152 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/kernel/cacheinfo.c
>> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static struct cacheinfo *get_cacheinfo(u32 level, enum cache_type type)
>>      /*
>>       * Using raw_smp_processor_id() elides a preemptability check, but this
>>       * is really indicative of a larger problem: the cacheinfo UABI assumes
>> -     * that cores have a homonogenous view of the cache hierarchy.  That
>> +     * that cores have a homogenous view of the cache hierarchy.  That
>>       * happens to be the case for the current set of RISC-V systems, but
>>       * likely won't be true in general.  Since there's no way to provide
>>       * correct information for these systems via the current UABI we're


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~Randy