linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: improve introduction wording in howto.rst

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Message-ID: <93555355-8be5-4e81-a569-8c43adb1986a@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2025 22:30:46 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: ᴋᴀʀᴛɪᴋ sʜᴀʜ
 <kartikpro9599@...il.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: improve introduction wording in howto.rst

Hi,

On 12/6/25 10:14 PM, ᴋᴀʀᴛɪᴋ sʜᴀʜ wrote:
> From 48d7e03ca7278705283d95b7da75739b97996a66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: kartikpro9599-hash <kartikpro9599@...il.com>
> Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2025 11:35:19 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] docs: improve introduction wording in howto.rst
> 
> Signed-off-by: kartikpro9599-hash <kartikpro9599@...il.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/howto.rst | 12 ++----------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/howto.rst b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
> index 9438e03d6..7c7fc331c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/howto.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
> @@ -2,16 +2,8 @@
> 
>  HOWTO do Linux kernel development
>  =================================
> -
> -This is the be-all, end-all document on this topic.  It contains
> -instructions on how to become a Linux kernel developer and how to learn
> -to work with the Linux kernel development community.  It tries to not
> -contain anything related to the technical aspects of kernel programming,
> -but will help point you in the right direction for that.
> -
> -If anything in this document becomes out of date, please send in patches
> -to the maintainer of this file, who is listed at the bottom of the
> -document.

Something seems to be wrong with the patch here:

> +This is a complete introductory document on this topic. It contains
> instructions on how to become a Linux kernel developer and how to work
> with the Linux kernel development community. It does not cover the
> technical aspects of kernel programming, but will help point you in
> the right direction for that.
> +If anything in this document becomes out of date, please send in
> patches to the maintainer of this file, who is listed at the bottom of
> the document.

Each line that is changed (added or deleted) should have a '+' or '-'
(respectively) as its first character.
I cannot apply this patch in this form:
patch: **** malformed patch at line 38: instructions on how to become a Linux kernel developer and how to work

Did you send it to yourself and then try to apply it?

And the second part (last 3 lines above) don't need to be changed.
They are the same as the current content of the file and don't need
to be touched.


thanks.
-- 
~Randy