linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] docs/uio: fix a grammar nitpick

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Message-ID: <20181018123126.3e59c3fd@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:31:26 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Will Korteland <will@...te.land>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs/uio: fix a grammar nitpick

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:57:44 +0000 (UTC)
Will Korteland <will@...te.land> wrote:

> This patch fixes a minor, incorrect piece of grammar in the UIO howto.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Will Korteland <will@...te.land>
> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> ---
> The sole change since v1 is that I re-did the patch against
> linux-next-20181016 instead of linux. Sorry for the extra work Greg, and
> thanks Randy for the acked-by.

Unfortunately, this patch is badly white-space mangled.  I tried fixing
it up but eventually had to give up and move on.

Please fix up your email client so that this doesn't happen; see
Documentation/process/email-clients.rst for some helpful suggestions
to that end.  Once you can email the patch to yourself and apply the
result successfully, please resubmit it.

Thanks,

jon
> 
>   Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst | 4 ++--
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst 
> b/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst
> index fb2eb73be4a3..25f50eace28b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/uio-howto.rst
> @@ -463,8 +463,8 @@ Getting information about your UIO device
> 
>   Information about all UIO devices is available in sysfs. The first 
> thing
>   you should do in your driver is check ``name`` and ``version`` to make
> -sure your talking to the right device and that its kernel driver has 
> the
> -version you expect.
> +sure you're talking to the right device and that its kernel driver has
> +the version you expect.
> 
>   You should also make sure that the memory mapping you need exists and
>   has the size you expect.