linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: management-style: Correct "know" past participle

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Message-ID: <2a66319f-63f1-408b-8815-89254d68b90b@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:40:08 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Documentation <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Kernel Workflows <workflows@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Fox Foster <fox@...dis.ed.ac.uk>, Federico Vaga
 <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>, Jonathan Neuschäfer
 <j.neuschaefer@....net>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: management-style: Correct "know" past
 participle

On 8/26/25 11:47, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/process/management-style.rst b/Documentation/process/management-style.rst
>> index dfbc69bf49d435..1381b253b19ef4 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/process/management-style.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/process/management-style.rst
>> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ actually true.
>>   The name of the game is to **avoid** having to make a decision.  In
>>   particular, if somebody tells you "choose (a) or (b), we really need you
>>   to decide on this", you're in trouble as a manager.  The people you
>> -manage had better know the details better than you, so if they come to
>> +manage had better known the details than you, so if they come to
>>   you for a technical decision, you're screwed.  You're clearly not
> 
> This seems actively wrong ... ?
> 

What I thought on the original wording was that the people (i.e. 
developers) know the (technical) details better than their manager.
And yeah, "better" was duplicated.

Thanks.

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