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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

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-31 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ 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
     [not found] ` <20260822121651.1559-7-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
2026-08-22 12:28   ` [PATCH 6/7] docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name Zi Yan
2026-08-22 17:30   ` Randy Dunlap
     [not found] ` <20260822121651.1559-8-kmehltretter@gmail.com>
2026-08-22 17:32   ` [PATCH 7/7] docs: debugobjects: Fix debug_object_init() name Randy Dunlap
2026-08-31 21:34 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]

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