linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: sched: Update sched-rt-group Documentation For Gender Inclusiveness

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Date:   Fri, 6 May 2022 10:29:06 -0400
From:   Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>
To:     Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, corbet@....net,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: sched: Update sched-rt-group Documentation For
 Gender Inclusiveness

On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 10:14:24PM -0400 Joseph Salisbury wrote:
> Document assumes root user is he:
> "assumes root knows what he is doing."
> 
> Update documentation for inclusivness, since root is not limited by gender.
> 
> Fixes: 60aa605dfce2 ("sched: rt: document the risk of small values in the bandwidth settings")
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@...onical.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst
> index 655a096ec8fb..e55fee6772c4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-rt-group.rst
> @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Real-Time group scheduling
>  ==========
>  
>   Fiddling with these settings can result in an unstable system, the knobs are
> - root only and assumes root knows what he is doing.
> + root only and assumes root knows what they are doing.
>

Now there's a singular vs plural problem.

"... assumes root users know ..."  ?



Cheers,
Phil

>  Most notable:
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1
> 

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