2024-02-05 13:27:41

by Thorsten Blum

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Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: tainted-kernels.rst: Add missing article and comma

- Add missing article "the"
- s/above example/example above/
- Add missing comma after introductory clause to improve readability

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
index 92a8a07f5c43..f92551539e8a 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ name of the command ('Comm:') that triggered the event::

You'll find a 'Not tainted: ' there if the kernel was not tainted at the
time of the event; if it was, then it will print 'Tainted: ' and characters
-either letters or blanks. In above example it looks like this::
+either letters or blanks. In the example above it looks like this::

Tainted: P W O

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ At runtime, you can query the tainted state by reading
tainted; any other number indicates the reasons why it is. The easiest way to
decode that number is the script ``tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint``, which your
distribution might ship as part of a package called ``linux-tools`` or
-``kernel-tools``; if it doesn't you can download the script from
+``kernel-tools``; if it doesn't, you can download the script from
`git.kernel.org <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint>`_
and execute it with ``sh kernel-chktaint``, which would print something like
this on the machine that had the statements in the logs that were quoted earlier::
--
2.39.2



2024-02-05 17:36:03

by Jonathan Corbet

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: tainted-kernels.rst: Add missing article and comma

Thorsten Blum <[email protected]> writes:

> - Add missing article "the"
> - s/above example/example above/
> - Add missing comma after introductory clause to improve readability
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon

2024-02-05 21:55:24

by Randy Dunlap

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: tainted-kernels.rst: Add missing article and comma



On 2/5/24 05:24, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> - Add missing article "the"
> - s/above example/example above/
> - Add missing comma after introductory clause to improve readability
>
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <[email protected]>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>

Thanks.

> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> index 92a8a07f5c43..f92551539e8a 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ name of the command ('Comm:') that triggered the event::
>
> You'll find a 'Not tainted: ' there if the kernel was not tainted at the
> time of the event; if it was, then it will print 'Tainted: ' and characters
> -either letters or blanks. In above example it looks like this::
> +either letters or blanks. In the example above it looks like this::
>
> Tainted: P W O
>
> @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ At runtime, you can query the tainted state by reading
> tainted; any other number indicates the reasons why it is. The easiest way to
> decode that number is the script ``tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint``, which your
> distribution might ship as part of a package called ``linux-tools`` or
> -``kernel-tools``; if it doesn't you can download the script from
> +``kernel-tools``; if it doesn't, you can download the script from
> `git.kernel.org <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/plain/tools/debugging/kernel-chktaint>`_
> and execute it with ``sh kernel-chktaint``, which would print something like
> this on the machine that had the statements in the logs that were quoted earlier::

--
#Randy