linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] documentation/arm64 : kdump fixed typo errors

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Message-ID: <871pp8a9ze.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:08:21 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: hariconscious@...il.com, shuah@...nel.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
 will@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: HariKrishna <hariconscious@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation/arm64 : kdump fixed typo errors

hariconscious@...il.com writes:

> From: HariKrishna <hariconscious@...il.com>
>
> kdump.rst documentation typos corrected
>
> Signed-off-by: HariKrishna <hariconscious@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/arch/arm64/kdump.rst | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/kdump.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/kdump.rst
> index 56a89f45df28..d3195a93a066 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/kdump.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/kdump.rst
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ crashkernel memory reservation on arm64
>  Author: Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
>  
>  Kdump mechanism is used to capture a corrupted kernel vmcore so that
> -it can be subsequently analyzed. In order to do this, a preliminarily
> +it can be subsequently analyzed. In order to do this, a preliminary
>  reserved memory is needed to pre-load the kdump kernel and boot such
>  kernel if corruption happens.

I don't think this is right.  While reserving judgment on
"preliminarily" as a word, the intended use is adverbial, so this change
does not make things better.  The better fix, perhaps, is to say
"previously" instead.

Should you choose to resubmit this, we'll need your real name in the
Signed-off-by tag, please.

Thanks,

jon