linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation/locking/locktypes: fix the typo

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Message-ID: <20200813144808.4bcd0dfd@lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:48:08 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Huang Shijie <sjhuang@...vatar.ai>
Cc:     <peterz@...radead.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>, <will@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/locking/locktypes: fix the typo

On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 14:02:20 +0800
Huang Shijie <sjhuang@...vatar.ai> wrote:

> We have three categories locks, not two.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <sjhuang@...vatar.ai>
> ---
>  Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst b/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
> index 1b577a8bf982..4cefed8048ca 100644
> --- a/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/locking/locktypes.rst
> @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Introduction
>  ============
>  
>  The kernel provides a variety of locking primitives which can be divided
> -into two categories:
> +into three categories:

One can never get away from those off-by-one errors...applied, thanks.

jon