linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coding-style: fix verb typo

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Message-ID: <87wm46btj5.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:11:58 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Gabriele Ricciardi <gricciardi-coding@...me>
Cc: workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Gabriele Ricciardi <gricciardi-coding@...me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coding-style: fix verb typo

Gabriele Ricciardi <gricciardi-coding@...me> writes:

> In the Identation section there is a list of instructions in
> second-person. The offending line uses third-person singular.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Ricciardi <gricciardi-coding@...me>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index d1a8e5465ed9..2969ca378dbb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Don't use commas to avoid using braces:
>  	if (condition)
>  		do_this(), do_that();
>  
> -Always uses braces for multiple statements:
> +Always use braces for multiple statements:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c

Applied, thanks.

jon