The RISC-V architecture has a register named the "Supervisor Exception Program Counter", or "sepc". This abbreviation triggers checkpatch.pl's misspelling detector, resulting in noise in the checkpatch output. The risk that this noise could cause more useful warnings to be missed seems to outweigh the harm of an occasional misspelling of "spec". Thus drop the "sepc" entry from the misspelling list.
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walms...@sifive.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> --- scripts/spelling.txt | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/spelling.txt b/scripts/spelling.txt index 86b87332b9e5..5ae83ce31902 100644 --- a/scripts/spelling.txt +++ b/scripts/spelling.txt @@ -1145,7 +1145,6 @@ senarios||scenarios sentivite||sensitive separatly||separately sepcify||specify -sepc||spec seperated||separated seperately||separately seperate||separate -- 2.20.1
