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Several spellings and punctuations in Documentation

PATCH In review Markus Osterhoff 2 participants 2 messages Aug 17, 2014 – Aug 18, 2014

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While reading some documentation to get acquainted with the Linux kernel development, I encountered some spelling and punctuation, erm, mutants that are addressed in this patch-set.

Patches are based on v3.17-rc1.

Since this is my first patch, any comments on style and email are welcome.

Markus Osterhoff (9):
[typo] spelling, punctuation in main README file [typo] MAINTAINERS: redundant full stop removed [typo] REPORTING-BUGS
[typo] COPYING: form feeds removed
[typo] CREDITS: capitalisation, punctuation [typo] Doc/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt: several spellings [typo] Doc/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt: sentence structure [typo] Doc/CodingStyle, BUG-HUNTING, 00-INDEX [typo] spelling, punctuation in Documentation/...

 COPYING                                   | 10 +++++-----
 CREDITS                                   |  4 ++--
 Documentation/00-INDEX                    |  4 ++--
 Documentation/BUG-HUNTING                 | 10 +++++-----
 Documentation/CodingStyle                 |  8 ++++----
 Documentation/HOWTO                       | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 Documentation/ManagementStyle             | 16 ++++++++--------
 Documentation/SecurityBugs                |  2 +-
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches           |  4 ++--
 Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 18 +++++++++---------
 MAINTAINERS                               |  2 +-
 README                                    |  4 ++--
 REPORTING-BUGS                            |  4 ++--
 13 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
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1.8.5.5
Acked-by on the v1 series
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Quoted 8 lines · Markus Osterhoff

While reading some documentation to get acquainted with the Linux kernel development, I encountered some spelling and punctuation, erm, mutants that are addressed in this patch-set.

Patches are based on v3.17-rc1.

Since this is my first patch, any comments on style and email are welcome.

Hi Markus,

It would be nice (but not strictly required) for patches 1-9 to be replies to (or references to) patch 0.
git-send-email can do this; see --thread.

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Markus Osterhoff (9):
[typo] spelling, punctuation in main README file [typo] MAINTAINERS: redundant full stop removed [typo] REPORTING-BUGS
[typo] COPYING: form feeds removed
[typo] CREDITS: capitalisation, punctuation [typo] Doc/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt: several spellings [typo] Doc/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt: sentence structure [typo] Doc/CodingStyle, BUG-HUNTING, 00-INDEX [typo] spelling, punctuation in Documentation/...

Patches should have a Subject: like
[PATCH 1/9] README: fix spelling and punctuation in main README file

I would prefer for these to all go thru the trivial patch maintainer:
Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>

That would involve adding the word "trivial" somewhere in the Subject line, like (e.g.)
[PATCH 1/9 trivial] README: fix spelling and punctuation in main README file or
[PATCH 1/9] trivial: fix spelling and punctuation in main README file

I can ack patches 1-3 and 5-8:

Thanks.

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 COPYING                                   | 10 +++++-----
 CREDITS                                   |  4 ++--
 Documentation/00-INDEX                    |  4 ++--
 Documentation/BUG-HUNTING                 | 10 +++++-----
 Documentation/CodingStyle                 |  8 ++++----
 Documentation/HOWTO                       | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 Documentation/ManagementStyle             | 16 ++++++++--------
 Documentation/SecurityBugs                |  2 +-
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches           |  4 ++--
 Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt | 18 +++++++++---------
 MAINTAINERS                               |  2 +-
 README                                    |  4 ++--
 REPORTING-BUGS                            |  4 ++--
 13 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
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~Randy