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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-04 22:34:27 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-04 22:34:27 +0300
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Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, including: - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport. - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script to keep it updated. - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check SPDX tags. - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of Documentation/ ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc" * tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits) Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section. docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*() doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'" Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc. ...
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@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ of conventions and procedures which are used in the posting of patches;
following them will make life much easier for everybody involved. This
document will attempt to cover these expectations in reasonable detail;
more information can also be found in the files process/submitting-patches.rst,
-process/submitting-drivers.rst, and process/submit-checklist.rst in the kernel documentation
-directory.
+process/submitting-drivers.rst, and process/submit-checklist.rst in the kernel
+documentation directory.
When to post
@@ -198,8 +198,8 @@ pass it to diff with the "-X" option.
The tags mentioned above are used to describe how various developers have
been associated with the development of this patch. They are described in
-detail in the process/submitting-patches.rst document; what follows here is a brief
-summary. Each of these lines has the format:
+detail in the process/submitting-patches.rst document; what follows here is a
+brief summary. Each of these lines has the format:
::
@@ -210,8 +210,8 @@ The tags in common use are:
- Signed-off-by: this is a developer's certification that he or she has
the right to submit the patch for inclusion into the kernel. It is an
agreement to the Developer's Certificate of Origin, the full text of
- which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code without a
- proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
+ which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code
+ without a proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
- Co-developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple
@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ The tags in common use are:
it to work.
- Reviewed-by: the named developer has reviewed the patch for correctness;
- see the reviewer's statement in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for more
- detail.
+ see the reviewer's statement in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+ for more detail.
- Reported-by: names a user who reported a problem which is fixed by this
patch; this tag is used to give credit to the (often underappreciated)