[PATCH] coding-style: fix verb typo

Gabriele Ricciardi posted 1 patch 3 months, 1 week ago
Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
[PATCH] coding-style: fix verb typo
Posted by Gabriele Ricciardi 3 months, 1 week ago
In the Identation section there is a list of instructions in
second-person. The offending line uses third-person singular.

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Ricciardi <gricciardi-coding@pm.me>
---
 Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
index d1a8e5465ed9..2969ca378dbb 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Don't use commas to avoid using braces:
 	if (condition)
 		do_this(), do_that();
 
-Always uses braces for multiple statements:
+Always use braces for multiple statements:
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
-- 
2.51.2
Re: [PATCH] coding-style: fix verb typo
Posted by Jonathan Corbet 3 months ago
Gabriele Ricciardi <gricciardi-coding@pm.me> writes:

> In the Identation section there is a list of instructions in
> second-person. The offending line uses third-person singular.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Ricciardi <gricciardi-coding@pm.me>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index d1a8e5465ed9..2969ca378dbb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Don't use commas to avoid using braces:
>  	if (condition)
>  		do_this(), do_that();
>  
> -Always uses braces for multiple statements:
> +Always use braces for multiple statements:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c

Applied, thanks.

jon
Re: [PATCH] coding-style: fix verb typo
Posted by Randy Dunlap 3 months, 1 week ago

On 11/1/25 3:31 PM, Gabriele Ricciardi wrote:
> In the Identation section there is a list of instructions in
> second-person. The offending line uses third-person singular.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriele Ricciardi <gricciardi-coding@pm.me>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

Thanks.

> ---
>  Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> index d1a8e5465ed9..2969ca378dbb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/coding-style.rst
> @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ Don't use commas to avoid using braces:
>  	if (condition)
>  		do_this(), do_that();
>  
> -Always uses braces for multiple statements:
> +Always use braces for multiple statements:
>  
>  .. code-block:: c
>  

-- 
~Randy