From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms.lwn.net (ms.lwn.net [45.79.88.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7196A168A8; Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:08:56 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=lwn.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=lwn.net header.i=@lwn.net header.b="JfFC1iuP" Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:280:5e00:7e19::646]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8D8D34E5; Sat, 23 Dec 2023 22:08:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 8D8D34E5 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1703369335; bh=huOwuWYusX/7wW3EH8MurgaAXdURnOfG8Q1+QitNm0U=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=JfFC1iuPyXau/7zdwYxy2Of+19JT9XbDjGYb9RnuvyQFnhkv6vqWNPnl+JHr3Jw6s SjA30fUpvZK36Mtsn4tnXPXHLr/9JEGy5zmBx4lGyfgB1fDuODtN5aaPxj4ISV9Def QMjP3a+BHdcvTqz2s661fhbkS+GA0n11NsBrmOP1spplt4WuXy2ER2uHF4/D3tLaxI /dYlUVpSL6jWYVxcTX9Ka+d2SEwSrE65an4G1dHEn8ac+2KfmB+BXdZd19hAU2k/nu 8l5gqIuR95e201dj9YUQ5VJ6rFTXnGhMhK2h/KwytbfV3SEXfnqjOwr2M3x02qkYK4 vS0Gtg+cRWfXg== From: Jonathan Corbet To: attreyee-muk , jpoimboe@kernel.org, jikos@kernel.org, mbenes@suse.cz, pmladek@suse.com, joe.lawrence@redhat.com Cc: attreyee-muk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, live-patching@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/livepatch: Update terminology in livepatch In-Reply-To: <20231223205813.32083-1-tintinm2017@gmail.com> References: <20231223205813.32083-1-tintinm2017@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 15:08:54 -0700 Message-ID: <87o7eg607d.fsf@meer.lwn.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: live-patching@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain attreyee-muk writes: > Update the sentence in livepatch.rst to: "Functions are there for a reason. Take some input parameters, acquire or release locks, read, process, and write some data in a defined way." > > Signed-off-by: Attreyee Mukherjee > --- > Documentation/livepatch/livepatch.rst | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) So this is a classic example of saying what you have done, but not why. What makes this a change that we want? Also, please wrap your changelogs to a reasonable line length. Thanks, jon