From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Cc: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
Petr Tesarik <petr@tesarici.cz>,
Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>,
Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] docs: core-api: Fix stale function names and a broken example
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:34:17 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a4q2gejq.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260822121651.1559-1-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@gmail.com> writes:
> A review of Documentation/core-api turned up a handful of places where
> the text names a function that does not exist, or an example command
> that cannot work as written. Each one is a plain typo from the day the
> text was written rather than an API rename: for every patch the wrong
> name was checked against the tree at the time of the Fixes: commit, and
> the correct name exists in current mainline.
>
> The changes are independent of each other and only touch prose and
> examples, so each can be applied on its own.
>
> Karl Mehltretter (7):
> docs: cpu_hotplug: Fix multi-instance removal calls
> docs: irq-affinity: Restore grep in example
> docs: dma-attributes: Fix dma_alloc_attrs() name
> docs: swiotlb: Fix maximum mapping size helper
> docs: this_cpu_ops: Fix SRCU helper names
> docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name
> docs: debugobjects: Fix debug_object_init() name
>
> Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst | 4 ++--
> Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-affinity.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/swiotlb.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/this_cpu_ops.rst | 6 +++---
> Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/debug-objects.rst | 2 +-
> 7 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
I've applied the set, thanks.
jon
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-22 12:16 [PATCH 0/7] docs: core-api: Fix stale function names and a broken example Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 1/7] docs: cpu_hotplug: Fix multi-instance removal calls Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-24 16:57 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-08-24 18:05 ` Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-24 18:28 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 2/7] docs: irq-affinity: Restore grep in example Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 3/7] docs: dma-attributes: Fix dma_alloc_attrs() name Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:25 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-24 9:26 ` Marek Szyprowski
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 4/7] docs: swiotlb: Fix maximum mapping size helper Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:26 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 5/7] docs: this_cpu_ops: Fix SRCU helper names Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 16:39 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-08-22 17:28 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 6/7] docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 12:28 ` Zi Yan
2026-08-22 17:30 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-22 12:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] docs: debugobjects: Fix debug_object_init() name Karl Mehltretter
2026-08-22 17:32 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-08-31 21:34 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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