From: Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
jikos@kernel.org, bentiss@kernel.org, jdelvare@suse.com
Cc: skhan@linuxfoundation.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Fix spelling and grammatical issues
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2025 02:02:21 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2271471-2601-41a2-aea3-b7de0ed78342@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jza5hh7m.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
On 04/02/25 20:47, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> writes:
>
>> On 2/4/25 05:48, Purva Yeshi wrote:
>>> Fix several spelling and grammatical errors across multiple
>>> documentation files.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Purva Yeshi <purvayeshi550@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>> Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst | 4 ++--
>>> Documentation/hid/intel-ish-hid.rst | 2 +-
>>> Documentation/hid/uhid.rst | 2 +-
>>> Documentation/hwmon/abituguru-datasheet.rst | 8 ++++----
>>> Documentation/hwmon/abituguru.rst | 2 +-
>>> 5 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst b/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
>>> index 9b82c7f896aa..073485f84793 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
>>> +++ b/Documentation/hid/hiddev.rst
>>> @@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ To support these disparate requirements, the Linux USB system provides
>>> HID events to two separate interfaces:
>>> * the input subsystem, which converts HID events into normal input
>>> device interfaces (such as keyboard, mouse and joystick) and a
>>> -normalised event interface - see Documentation/input/input.rst
>>> +normalized event interface - see Documentation/input/input.rst
>>
>> Is US spelling now mandated in the Linux kernel ?
>
> No, from Documentation/doc-guide/contributing.rst:
Thank you for the clarification. I'll leave the spelling changes as they
are.
>
>> Both American and British English spellings are allowed within the
>> kernel documentation. There is no need to fix one by replacing it with
>> the other.
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-04 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-04 13:48 [PATCH] docs: Fix spelling and grammatical issues Purva Yeshi
2025-02-04 14:07 ` Greg KH
2025-02-04 20:24 ` Purva Yeshi
2025-02-04 14:39 ` Guenter Roeck
2025-02-04 15:17 ` Jonathan Corbet
2025-02-04 20:32 ` Purva Yeshi [this message]
2025-02-04 20:27 ` Purva Yeshi
2025-02-04 18:11 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-02-04 20:40 ` Purva Yeshi
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