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

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Date:   Fri, 5 Mar 2021 11:00:10 -0500
From:   Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>
To:     Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>, jpoimboe@...hat.com,
        jikos@...nel.org, mbenes@...e.cz, pmladek@...e.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 3/5/21 8:37 AM, Bhaskar Chowdhury wrote:
> On 12:56 Fri 05 Mar 2021, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> The spaces before the "In" .. nor I am imposing anything , it was peter caught
> and told me that it is hanging ..move it to the next line ..so I did. ..
> 

Initially I thought the same as Matthew, but after inspecting the diff I 
realized it was just a line wrap.  Looks fine to me.

>>>   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/    ..where???

Hi Bhaskar,

Thanks for spotting, I'd be happy with v2 as is or a v3 if you want to 
update s/shadow variables to only/shadow variables for only/  but 
knowing me, I probably repeated the same phrasing elsewhere.  Up to you, 
thanks.

Acked-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>

-- Joe