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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>, Yahya Toubali <yahya@yahyatoubali.me>
Cc: "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
	"Shuah Khan" <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"open list:CONTROL GROUP (CGROUP)" <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	"open list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Documentation: admin-guide: fix trailing whitespace in cgroup-v2.rst
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:44:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zezn3p4r.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alumXzlDApA_iMbY@wyuan.org>

Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 18, 2026 at 04:19:08PM +0100, Yahya Toubali wrote:
>> Remove trailing spaces on lines 1335 and 2197.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Yahya Toubali <yahya@yahyatoubali.me>
>
> Hmmm, for a file that might be modified, I wonder if it makes sense to
> include fixed line numbers in the commit message. i.e. When the line
> number changes, your commit message will become meaningless.
>
> I'd love to hear others' comments.

Honestly, I question the value of churning the files for a couple of
trailing blanks in the first place.  There are *so many* ways in which
our documentation can be improved, and this doesn't approach any of
them.

Thanks,

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-07-19 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-18 15:19 [PATCH 1/5] Documentation: proc: fix repeated word 'page' Yahya Toubali
2026-07-18 15:19 ` [PATCH 2/5] Documentation: admin-guide: fix trailing whitespace in cgroup-v2.rst Yahya Toubali
2026-07-18 16:14   ` Weijie Yuan
2026-07-18 16:16     ` Randy Dunlap
2026-07-18 16:32       ` Weijie Yuan
2026-07-18 16:56     ` [PATCH v3] " Yahya Toubali
2026-07-18 17:24       ` Randy Dunlap
2026-07-19 16:44     ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-07-19 17:21       ` [PATCH 2/5] " Weijie Yuan
2026-07-18 15:19 ` [PATCH 4/5] Documentation: fix spelling typos Yahya Toubali
2026-07-18 16:07   ` Weijie Yuan
2026-07-18 16:56     ` [PATCH v3] " Yahya Toubali
2026-07-19  2:00       ` Mark Pearson
2026-07-19 16:46         ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-07-19 17:37           ` [PATCH] Documentation: wmi: lenovo-wmi-other: Document intentional BIOS misspelling Yahya Toubali
2026-07-19 17:44             ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-07-19 18:02               ` Weijie Yuan
2026-07-19 22:42               ` Yahya Toubali
2026-07-19 22:54                 ` Weijie Yuan
2026-07-20 12:51                 ` Jonathan Corbet
2026-07-20 21:06                   ` Yahya Toubali
2026-07-18 15:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] Documentation: add SPDX license identifiers to RST files Yahya Toubali
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2026-07-18 14:40 [PATCH 2/5] Documentation: admin-guide: fix trailing whitespace in cgroup-v2.rst Yahya Toubali

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