First (silly, silly, silly) official kernel patch

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:29:30 +0000

Today, I got a mail from Greg Kroah-Hartman !!!

	from	Greg Kroah-Hartman
to		linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
cc		Maxin John , “Maxin B. John” , Greg Kroah-Hartman
date		Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM
subject		[PATCH 056/142] USB: serial: Spelling correction in Motorola USB Phone driver

hide details 7:25 PM (24 minutes ago)

From: Maxin John <maxin.john@gmail.com>

Spelling correction in Motorola USB Phone driver

Changed: * Mororola should be using the CDC ACM USB spec, but instead
To: * Motorola should be using the CDC ACM USB spec, but instead

Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxinbjohn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
—
drivers/usb/serial/moto_modem.

c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff –git a/drivers/usb/serial/moto_modem.c b/drivers/usb/serial/moto_modem.c
index b66b71c..99bd00f 100644
— a/drivers/usb/serial/moto_modem.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/moto_modem.c
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
* published by the Free Software Foundation.
*
* {sigh}
- * Mororola should be using the CDC ACM USB spec, but instead
+ * Motorola should be using the CDC ACM USB spec, but instead
* they try to just “do their own thing”… This driver should handle a
* few phones in which a basic “dumb serial connection” is needed to be
* able to get a connection through to them.
–

Wow, he has accepted my silly patch. It is now in the linux-next git tree

Link to the patch: moto_modem.c

It was one of my dreams to submit patches to the Linux Kernel (can be anything, just anything). Now it is true !!!

It’s now in Linux-2.6.32-rc1 tree:

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First (silly, silly, silly) official kernel patch