linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: kernel-hacking: Remove the word fuck,trying to be civil :)

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Message-ID: <87sg62pmd4.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:04:07 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>, swboyd@...omium.org,
        tiwai@...e.de, nfraprado@...tonmail.com, mchehab+huawei@...nel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     rdunlap@...radead.org, Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: kernel-hacking: Remove the word fuck,trying to be
 civil :)

Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com> writes:

> s/fuck//
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
> index c3448929a824..ed1284c6f078 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
> @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ grabs a read lock, searches a list, fails to find what it wants, drops
>  the read lock, grabs a write lock and inserts the object has a race
>  condition.
>
> -If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
> +If you don't see why, please stay away from my code.

Sigh.

I've gotten a few variants of this patch over the years...I guess maybe
the time has come to apply one, so I did.  If the word is too offensive
to be in our docs, though, perhaps it shouldn't be in the changelog
either, so I rewrote it:

    docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil
    
    Remove the f-bomb from locking.rst.  Let's have a moment of silence,
    though, as we mark the passing of the last of Rusty's once plentiful
    profanities in this venerable document.

Thanks,

jon