linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII

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Date:   Mon, 10 May 2021 10:00:34 -0400
From:   Ben Boeckel <me@...boeckel.net>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/53] Get rid of UTF-8 chars that can be mapped as ASCII

On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 13:55:18 +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>     $ git grep "CPU 0 has been" Documentation/RCU/
>       Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst:| #. CPU 0 has been in dyntick-idle mode for quite some time. When it   |
>       Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.rst:|    notices that CPU 0 has been in dyntick idle mode, which qualifies  |

The kernel documentation uses hard line wraps, so such a naive grep is
going to always fail unless such line wraps are taken into account. Not
saying this isn't an improvement in and of itself, but smarter searching
strategies are likely needed anyways.

--Ben