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

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Message-ID: <9044fe82-043f-4e45-b7cf-114a8860f650@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:42:11 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
 Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Documentation <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 Linux Kernel Workflows <workflows@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Fox Foster <fox@...dis.ed.ac.uk>,
 Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
 Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: management-style: Correct "know" past
 participle

On 8/26/25 13:54, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 8/25/25 5:34 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>> Management style docs writes on people under a manager, where they know
>> the details better than the manager himself, in past perfect tense. Yet,
>> "know" is in infinitive form instead.
>>
>> Correct the verb form.
>>
> 
> Hi Bagas,
> 
> I don't know about the patch description/argument/justification,
> but the wording makes no sense to me...
> 

Do you mean the original or the patched? Should I left the former as-is?

Confused...

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