linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Remove duplicated words across the whole documentation

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Date:   Fri, 26 Aug 2022 16:40:50 +0000
From:   <Conor.Dooley@...rochip.com>
To:     <jmaselbas@...ray.eu>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     <rdunlap@...radead.org>, <bagasdotme@...il.com>, <corbet@....net>,
        <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Remove duplicated words across the whole documentation

Hey Jules,
On 26/08/2022 17:34, Jules Maselbas wrote:
> Remove duplicated words (the, at, be ...) across the whole documentation.
> In some cases the duplicated words are replaced by something that makes
> more sense, for instance: "be be" is replaced by "can be" when possible.
> 
> There are likely more duplicated words to be found.
> 
> CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> CC: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
> CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> CC: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jules Maselbas <jmaselbas@...ray.eu>
> ---


>  
>  printk_rb_static
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/vivid.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/vivid.rst
> index 4f680dc9661c..a5a9c062b23f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/media/vivid.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/media/vivid.rst
> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ Which one is returned depends on the chosen channel, each next valid channel
>  will cycle through the possible audio subchannel combinations. This allows
>  you to test the various combinations by just switching channels..
>  
> -Finally, for these inputs the v4l2_timecode struct is filled in in the
> +Finally, for these inputs the v4l2_timecode struct is filled in the

FYI, this does not look like a typo. It reads as if the filling in happens
in the dequeued struct.

>  dequeued v4l2_buffer struct.
>  
>  

> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> index af2a97429692..ce67a03a7c80 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> @@ -1090,7 +1090,7 @@ be formatted as plain text.
>  
>  Developing always goes hand in hand with debugging. First of all,
>  you can always run UML under gdb and there will be a whole section
> -later on on how to do that. That, however, is not the only way to

And neither is this. It means that there will be a later section that
explains how to do it. Possibly there should be some punctuation in
between though.

> +later on how to do that. That, however, is not the only way to
>  debug a Linux kernel. Quite often adding tracing statements and/or
>  using UML specific approaches such as ptracing the UML kernel process
>  are significantly more informative.

Thanks,
Conor.