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

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Date:   Fri, 12 Feb 2021 13:53:14 +0530
From:   Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, swboyd@...omium.org,
        tiwai@...e.de, nfraprado@...tonmail.com, mchehab+huawei@...nel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: kernel-hacking: Remove the word fuck,trying to be
 civil :)

On 09:10 Thu 11 Feb 2021, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>On 2/11/21 9:04 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> 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.
>
>I really like that tribute there, Jon. :)
>
Indeed!
>--
>~Randy
>

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