linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] : kernel-chktaint : Fixed space ,cosmetic change

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Message-ID: <20200326012036.GA985@ArchLinux>
Date:   Thu, 26 Mar 2020 06:50:36 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>
Cc:     rdunlap@...radead.org, joe@...ches.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] : kernel-chktaint : Fixed space ,cosmetic change

On 12:23 Wed 25 Mar 2020, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>Lo! Thx for taking a look at this, but it seems a few small details need
>to be improved before this can be applied. A few general issues first:
>
>* your patch v2 is afaics on top of the first patch; when doing further
>revisions please merge all your changes into one patch so everything you
>want to do can be done in one commit (and people that see this mail
>out-of-context can easily gasp what this is all about).
>
>* tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint was added via the docs tree, thus I
>think it's best if this change takes the same route, so please CC the
>docs maintainer Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> and linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> – I might be wrong with that line of thought, but Jonathan will know
>for sure.
>
>Am 24.03.20 um 23:59 schrieb Bhaskar Chowdhury:
>> Space bwtween
>
>Typo
>
>> the words is fixed at the bottom of the file,sentence
>
>Missing space after the comma.
>
>> starting with "Documentation....."
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint b/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint
>> index 74fd3282aa1b..1af06bc0e667 100755
>> --- a/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint
>> +++ b/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint
>> @@ -198,6 +198,6 @@ fi
>>  echo "Raw taint value as int/string: $taint/'$out'"
>
>This used to be the last time. Did you move it upwards on purpose?
>
>>  echo
>
>If you add a blank line here you IMHO might want to add one above the
>""Raw taint value" as well.
>
>>  echo "For a more detailed explanation of the various taint flags see below pointers:"
>> -echo "1) Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst in  the Linux kernel sources"
>> +echo "1) Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst in the Linux kernel sources"
>>  echo "2)  https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html"
>There are two spaces here as well: "2)  https".
>
>And I for one dislike the "1)" "2)" style, as in the end it's the same
>file in different locations. How about a text like this instead:
>
>```
>For a more detailed explanation of the various taint flags see
>Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst in the Linux sources which
>is also available online as rendered webpage at
>https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.html"
>```
>
>Feel free to improve on that, it's just a suggestion. I for one wonder
>if this cosmetic change is worth all of this, but no worries.
>
>Note, you also want to change tainted-kernels.rst, as in once place it
>shows the output of this tool (which is one more reason to route this
>via the docs tree).
>
>Ciao, Thorsten

Thanks a bunch, Thorsten ....I think we all should forget about this
event altogether ...this is not worth a single second of our time
...honestly...

crapping it ...let it be what it is ..in fact it is looks good in
present form . Too many round to gain too little...nope...

Sorry for trouble. 

~Bhaskar

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