linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix spelling, typos, grammar, duplicated words

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Message-ID: <aNpL6DOVTu4mpL2L@KAN23-025>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:06:01 +0000
From: Markus Heidelberg <M.Heidelberg@....de>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org"
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix spelling, typos, grammar, duplicated
 words

On Fri, Sep 26, 2025 at 10:36:28AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 9/26/25 2:53 AM, Markus Heidelberg wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Heidelberg <m.heidelberg@....de>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/bpf/prog_flow_dissector.rst  | 4 ++--
> >  Documentation/fb/fbcon.rst                 | 2 +-
> >  Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst  | 2 +-
> >  Documentation/hwmon/lm75.rst               | 2 +-
> >  Documentation/kernel-hacking/hacking.rst   | 2 +-
> >  Documentation/networking/phy.rst           | 8 ++++----
> >  Documentation/process/management-style.rst | 2 +-
> >  7 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> 
> These changes mostly look good. I'm curious about how you
> found these. ??

Hi Randy,

I just stumbled upon them while reading the documentation.
The "the to -> to the" swap I originally found in another file and then
searched for more occurrences with something like this:

  $ git grep -w -C1 "the to"

Markus