[PATCH 4/5] docs: fix repeated prepositions across documentation

Randy Dunlap rdunlap at infradead.org
Sat May 9 13:41:26 PDT 2026



On 5/9/26 12:39 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>>> Can we get the tool changed to add a warning, something like:
>>>
>>>   WARNING: This tool uses very simple pattern matching to look for
>>>   repeated words. It does not understand the complexity of English,
>>>   and will often result in false positive reports. Please assume it is
>>>   wrong until proven otherwise.
>>
>> There was no commit log and no cover letter AFAIK.
>> Do we know what tool was used?
>>
>> Adrien, how did you discover these repeated words?
>>
>> (If it's my script from 2021, I'll gladly update it.)

Adrien is not using my script -- they developed their own script.

> Thinking about it some more, i think the warning might actually need
> to be different.
> 
> If this tool has been around since 2021, all the real problems have
> been solved, leaving only the false positives. So the warning probably
> needs to be much stronger, saying that it probably only reports false
> positives, unless the code is new.

Makes some sense.


> Maybe we also want to extend the tool to have a list all the known
> false positives?

I'm not crazy about that one. And we have no evidence that I am aware
of that my script is causing any of these patches.


-- 
~Randy




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