Re: [PATCH for-11.0] Fix several typos in documentation (found by codespell)

On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 at 18:34, Stefan Weil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <[email protected]>
>
> These typos are part of the generated documentation.
> Therefore they should be fixed in the new release.
>
> More typos can be found in the remaining code, mostly in comments.


> diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
> index f8d446b3d6..e8adaaea34 100644
> --- a/qapi/block-core.json
> +++ b/qapi/block-core.json

> @@ -5086,14 +5086,14 @@
>  ##
>  # @blockdev-set-active:
>  #
> -# Activate or inactivate a block device.  Use this to manage the
> +# Activate or deactivate a block device.  Use this to manage the
>  # handover of block devices on migration with qemu-storage-daemon.
>  #
>  # Activating a node automatically activates all of its child nodes
>  # first.  Inactivating a node automatically inactivates any of its

We should also change these to "Deactivating" and "deactivates"
for consistency.

>  # child nodes that are not in use by a still active node.
>  #
> -# @node-name: Name of the graph node to activate or inactivate.  By
> +# @node-name: Name of the graph node to activate or deactivate.  By
>  #     default, all nodes are affected by the operation.
>  #
>  # @active: true if the nodes should be active when the command returns



>      ``param=string``
>           ``string`` will be passed to passt has a command line parameter,

should this be "as a command line parameter" ?

> -         we can have multiple occurences of the ``param`` parameter to
> +         we can have multiple occurrences of the ``param`` parameter to
>           pass multiple parameters to passt.
>
>           For instance, to pass ``--trace --log=trace.log``:
> --

thanks
-- PMM