Re: [PATCH] docs: reporting-issues: fix advice wording

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info> writes:

> On 5/12/26 03:51, Chen-Shi-Hong wrote:
>> Replace "these advices" with "this advice" in
>> Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst.
>
> Thx for this, fixing this is a good idea. It nevertheless makes me go
> "hmmm...", as the wrongly executed and maybe not obvious enough original
> intention of the author (disclaimer: me) was to make it a bit clearer
> that "this advice" does not only mean the one advice right before it,
> but all the pieces of advice in the paragraph. It would be great to
> cover that while fixing it. "pieces of advice" maybe? Not sure. Maybe
> somebody has a better idea. And maybe just ignore my nitpicking, guess
> "this advice" just feels too easy to misinterpret from my point of view
> as someone to whom English is a second language.

"Advice" is an uncountable thing, so the suggested fix certainly
encompasses the meaning you want.  It could be "all of this advice" or
some such if you want to make its coverage explicitly larger.

jon