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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-22 23:00:20 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2023-02-22 23:00:20 +0300
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Merge tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It has been a moderately calm cycle for documentation; the significant changes include: - Some significant additions to the memory-management documentation - Some improvements to navigation in the HTML-rendered docs - More Spanish and Chinese translations ... and the usual set of typo fixes and such" * tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (68 commits) Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Format Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Reference Documentation: core-api: padata: correct spelling docs/mm: Physical Memory: correct spelling in reference to CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION docs: Use HTML comments for the kernel-toc SPDX line docs: Add more information to the HTML sidebar Documentation: KVM: Update AMD memory encryption link printk: Document that CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY required for boot_delay= Documentation: userspace-api: correct spelling Documentation: sparc: correct spelling Documentation: driver-api: correct spelling Documentation: admin-guide: correct spelling docs: add workload-tracing document to admin-guide docs/admin-guide/mm: remove useless markup docs/mm: remove useless markup docs/mm: Physical Memory: remove useless markup docs/sp_SP: Add process magic-number translation docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace path Doc/damon: fix the data path error dma-buf: Add "dma-buf" to title of documentation ...
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@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ instance::
cat cocci.err
You can use SPFLAGS to add debugging flags; for instance you may want to
-add both --profile --show-trying to SPFLAGS when debugging. For example
+add both ``--profile --show-trying`` to SPFLAGS when debugging. For example
you may want to use::
rm -f err.log
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ variables for .cocciconfig is as follows:
- Your current user's home directory is processed first
- Your directory from which spatch is called is processed next
-- The directory provided with the --dir option is processed last, if used
+- The directory provided with the ``--dir`` option is processed last, if used
Since coccicheck runs through make, it naturally runs from the kernel
proper dir; as such the second rule above would be implied for picking up a
@@ -265,8 +265,8 @@ The kernel coccicheck script has::
fi
KBUILD_EXTMOD is set when an explicit target with M= is used. For both cases
-the spatch --dir argument is used, as such third rule applies when whether M=
-is used or not, and when M= is used the target directory can have its own
+the spatch ``--dir`` argument is used, as such third rule applies when whether
+M= is used or not, and when M= is used the target directory can have its own
.cocciconfig file. When M= is not passed as an argument to coccicheck the
target directory is the same as the directory from where spatch was called.