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Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:40:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.150] ([103.124.138.155]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2e1a72fcca58-771ead8f278sm3681715b3a.14.2025.08.26.00.40.12 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a66319f-63f1-408b-8815-89254d68b90b@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:40:08 +0700 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: management-style: Correct "know" past participle To: Jonathan Corbet , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Documentation , Linux Kernel Workflows Cc: Fox Foster , Federico Vaga , =?UTF-8?Q?Jonathan_Neusch=C3=A4fer?= , Randy Dunlap References: <20250826003437.7695-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com> <87349ed6zj.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Content-Language: en-US From: Bagas Sanjaya In-Reply-To: <87349ed6zj.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 8/26/25 11:47, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >> diff --git a/Documentation/process/management-style.rst b/Documentation/process/management-style.rst >> index dfbc69bf49d435..1381b253b19ef4 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/process/management-style.rst >> +++ b/Documentation/process/management-style.rst >> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ actually true. >> The name of the game is to **avoid** having to make a decision. In >> particular, if somebody tells you "choose (a) or (b), we really need you >> to decide on this", you're in trouble as a manager. The people you >> -manage had better know the details better than you, so if they come to >> +manage had better known the details than you, so if they come to >> you for a technical decision, you're screwed. You're clearly not > > This seems actively wrong ... ? > What I thought on the original wording was that the people (i.e. developers) know the (technical) details better than their manager. And yeah, "better" was duplicated. Thanks. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara