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Message-ID: <YApN9caMUhd0McVD@OpenSuse>
Date:   Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:30:53 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, masahiroy@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: LOL what a patch! change Linus to Linux

On 13:07 Thu 21 Jan 2021, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On 1/21/21 6:30 AM, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
>> s/Linus/Linux/
>>
>> ...how dare I?? :)
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
>
>Hi,
>
>You missed a second occurrence of that a few lines later.

Indeed!

>However, it is correct as is. It means the kernel tree
>that Linus maintains -- sometimes known as mainline.

Aw...I am confused to the end , Randy...

Anyway...it trivial and its "not noticeable" , so we can ignore it.

>> ---
>>  scripts/patch-kernel | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/scripts/patch-kernel b/scripts/patch-kernel
>> index 033d5916797d..314e80c252c0 100755
>> --- a/scripts/patch-kernel
>> +++ b/scripts/patch-kernel
>> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
>>  # e.g.
>>  #   scripts/patch-kernel . ..
>>  #      Update the kernel tree in the current directory using patches in the
>> -#      directory above to the latest Linus kernel
>> +#      directory above to the latest Linux kernel
>>  #   scripts/patch-kernel . .. -ac
>>  #      Get the latest Linux kernel and patch it with the latest ac patch
>>  #   scripts/patch-kernel . .. 2.4.9
>> --
>> 2.30.0
>>
>
>
>--
>~Randy
>"He closes his eyes and drops the goggles.  You can't get hurt
>by looking at a bitmap.  Or can you?"
>(Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash)

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