linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] docs: livepatch: Fix a typo and remove the unnecessary gaps in a sentence

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Message-ID: <20210305125600.GM2723601@casper.infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 12:56:00 +0000
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>
Cc:     jpoimboe@...hat.com, jikos@...nel.org, mbenes@...e.cz,
        pmladek@...e.com, joe.lawrence@...hat.com, corbet@....net,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rdunlap@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] docs: livepatch: Fix a typo and remove the
 unnecessary gaps in a sentence

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 03:39:23PM +0530, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> s/varibles/variables/
> 
> ...and remove leading spaces from a sentence.

What do you mean 'leading spaces'?  Separating two sentences with
one space or two is a matter of personal style, and we do not attempt
to enforce a particular style in the kernel.

>  Sometimes it may not be convenient or possible to allocate shadow
>  variables alongside their parent objects.  Or a livepatch fix may
> -require shadow varibles to only a subset of parent object instances.  In
> +require shadow variables to only a subset of parent object instances.

wrong preposition, s/to/for/