linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: kernel-hacking: Remove inappropriate text

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Message-ID: <877dfxxqxv.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 03 Sep 2021 15:57:48 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
        Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@...il.com>,
        Nícolas F. R. A. Prado 
        <nfraprado@...tonmail.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: kernel-hacking: Remove inappropriate text

Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io> writes:

> Remove inappropriate sexual (and ableist) text from the locking
> documentation, aligning it with the kernel code-of-conduct. As the text
> was unrelated to locking, this change streamlines the document and
> improves readability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alyssa Rosenzweig <alyssa@...enzweig.io>
> ---
>  Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 8 +-------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

That text dates all the way back to pre-2.4 kernels...there goes a bit
of history.  It's history that we can do without at this point, though;
patch applied, thanks.

jon