From: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: greg@kroah.com, Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: polish Executive Summary and Intro in stable-api-nonsense.rst
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:29:09 +0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260220132910.9645-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> (raw)
Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot <islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com>
---
Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
index a9625ab1fdc2..120c10ec2ab1 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ kernel interface, nor does it have a stable kernel interface**.
The kernel to userspace interface is the one that application programs use,
the syscall interface. That interface is **very** stable over time, and
- will not break. I have old programs that were built on a pre 0.9something
+ will not break. I have old programs that were built on a pre 0.9 something
kernel that still work just fine on the latest 2.6 kernel release.
That interface is the one that users and application programmers can count
on being stable.
@@ -25,13 +25,13 @@ kernel interface, nor does it have a stable kernel interface**.
Executive Summary
-----------------
-You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and
-you don't even know it. What you want is a stable running driver, and
-you get that only if your driver is in the main kernel tree. You also
-get lots of other good benefits if your driver is in the main kernel
-tree, all of which has made Linux into such a strong, stable, and mature
-operating system which is the reason you are using it in the first
-place.
+
+You might think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not - and
+you may not even realize it. What you truly want is a stable, running driver,
+which you get only if your driver is in the main kernel tree. Being in the main
+kernel tree also provides many additional benefits, all of which have helped
+make Linux a strong, stable, and mature operating system - the very reason you
+are using it today.
Intro
--
2.43.0
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2026-02-20 13:29 Ariful Islam Shoikot [this message]
2026-02-20 19:51 ` [PATCH] Documentation: polish Executive Summary and Intro in stable-api-nonsense.rst Randy Dunlap
2026-02-21 5:28 ` Greg KH
2026-02-21 5:26 ` Greg KH
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