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Sender: Salvatore Bonaccorso <salvatore.bonaccorso@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:37:44 +0200
From:   Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: stable: Document alternative for
 referring upstream commit hash
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Hi Jonathan,

On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 06:54:59AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Additionally to the "commit <sha1> upstream." variant, "[ Upstream
> > commit <sha1> ]" is used as well as alternative to refer to the upstream
> > commit hash.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> So this is a nit but...
> 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
> > index c61865e91f52..2fd8aa593a28 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
> > @@ -97,6 +97,12 @@ text, like this:
> >  
> >      commit <sha1> upstream.
> >  
> > +or alternatively:
> > +
> > +.. code-block:: none
> > +
> > +    [ Upstream commit <sha1> ]
> 
> Can this just be:
> 
>   or alternatively::
> 
>     [ Upstream commit <sha1> ]
> 
> That extra RST markup just clutters things without any advantage.

Okay, I just have sent a v2 dropping it.

Salvatore