Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: fix typos

From: Tuomas Ahola <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2026 19:55:57 +0300

"Kristoffer Haugsbakk" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 4, 2026, at 15:14, Tuomas Ahola wrote:
> > [PATCH] docs: fix typos
> 
> The area `docs` isn’t correct since you are also changing comments in
> source files.
> 
> `*` could be used (as in a wildcard). Other people have used other
> things for “treewide” changes.
> 

Hmm, I took that from the other typofix patches we have currently in `seen`.

> >   * The tm->tm_mday field has an additional logic of using negative values
> >   * for date adjustments: -2 means yesterday and -3 the day before that,
> > - * and so on.  The idea is to deref such adjustments until we are sure
> > + * and so on.  The idea is to defer such adjustments until we are sure
> 
> “deref” could have been “dereference” but this must indeed mean
> “defer”. We are putting off a decision until later.
> 

Yes, that was my own typo.  I always meant "defer".

> >
> > base-commit: 94f057755b7941b321fd11fec1b2e3ca5313a4e0
> > prerequisite-patch-id: f827362e061e199150f149dd36c67664c77406bc
> > prerequisite-patch-id: e5b32f0b916ec86eab6631b9bd9bafd639191765
> >   [...]
> > prerequisite-patch-id: 083f554bc5e09ae54c6b545628196e11a9e90cea
> 
> Okay, these must be all the non-merge commits from the topics you
> merged in.
> 

That's true.  Quite a list though.

Thanks for review!