linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/2] docs: watch_queue: Fix unit of the notification size field

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Message-Id: <20210211222112.1518161-3-krisman@collabora.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Feb 2021 17:21:12 -0500
From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        kernel@...labora.com
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] docs: watch_queue: Fix unit of the notification size field

Looking at the code and other documentation, the unit of size is
bytes.  Previously, the same documentation says bytes.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
---
 Documentation/watch_queue.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/watch_queue.rst b/Documentation/watch_queue.rst
index 426038e10276..75adb1874a0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/watch_queue.rst
+++ b/Documentation/watch_queue.rst
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ the following function should be used::
 
 The notification should be preformatted and a pointer to the header (``n``)
 should be passed in.  The notification may be larger than this and the size in
-units of buffer slots is noted in ``n->info & WATCH_INFO_LENGTH``.
+bytes is noted in ``n->info & WATCH_INFO_LENGTH``.
 
 The ``cred`` struct indicates the credentials of the source (subject) and is
 passed to the LSMs, such as SELinux, to allow or suppress the recording of the
-- 
2.30.0