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SubjectRe: [patch] Cleanups to Doc*/SubmittingPatches
On Sun, 14 May 2006 16:30:38 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote:

> This cleans up Submitting patches a bit. Missing/inconsistent full
> stops, mostly.

Incomplete sentences (fragments) don't need full stops, but they
should be consistent.

> diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> index c2c85bc..07b87ce 100644
> --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> @@ -173,17 +173,17 @@ copy the maintainer when you change thei
> For small patches you may want to CC the Trivial Patch Monkey
> trivial@kernel.org managed by Adrian Bunk; which collects "trivial"
> patches. Trivial patches must qualify for one of the following rules:
> - Spelling fixes in documentation
> + Spelling fixes in documentation.
> Spelling fixes which could break grep(1).

I would just remove that '.' above and skip the rest of the
changes in this section.

> - Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad)
> - Compilation fixes (only if they are actually correct)
> - Runtime fixes (only if they actually fix things)
> + Warning fixes (cluttering with useless warnings is bad).
> + Compilation fixes (only if they are actually correct).
> + Runtime fixes (only if they actually fix things).
> Removing use of deprecated functions/macros (eg. check_region).
> - Contact detail and documentation fixes
> + Contact detail and documentation fixes.
> Non-portable code replaced by portable code (even in arch-specific,
> - since people copy, as long as it's trivial)
> - Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file. (ie. patch monkey
> - in re-transmission mode)
> + since people copy, as long as it's trivial).
> + Any fix by the author/maintainer of the file (ie. patch monkey
> + in re-transmission mode).
> URL: <http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/trivial/>

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~Randy
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