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From: Volodymyr Kot <volodymyr.kot.ua@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Volodymyr Kot <volodymyr.kot.ua@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Doc: correct spelling and wording mistakes
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:39:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251225133911.87512-1-volodymyr.kot.ua@gmail.com> (raw)

Fixed capitalization and punctuation in process documentation.

Signed-off-by: Volodymyr Kot <volodymyr.kot.ua@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst          | 2 +-
 Documentation/process/2.Process.rst        | 2 +-
 Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst         | 6 +++---
 Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst | 2 +-
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst
index 25ca49f7ae4d..2c93caea069f 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/1.Intro.rst
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ include:
   are cloudy at best; quite a few kernel copyright holders believe that
   most binary-only modules are derived products of the kernel and that, as
   a result, their distribution is a violation of the GNU General Public
-  license (about which more will be said below).  Your author is not a
+  License (about which more will be said below).  Your author is not a
   lawyer, and nothing in this document can possibly be considered to be
   legal advice.  The true legal status of closed-source modules can only be
   determined by the courts.  But the uncertainty which haunts those modules
diff --git a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
index 7bd41838a546..57fa8cac58a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 How the development process works
 =================================
 
-Linux kernel development in the early 1990's was a pretty loose affair,
+Linux kernel development in the early 1990s was a pretty loose affair,
 with relatively small numbers of users and developers involved.  With a
 user base in the millions and with some 2,000 developers involved over the
 course of one year, the kernel has since had to evolve a number of
diff --git a/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst b/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst
index 80bcc1cabc23..c0f57d0c4f73 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst
@@ -160,12 +160,12 @@ irrelevant.
 Locking
 *******
 
-In May, 2006, the "Devicescape" networking stack was, with great
+In May 2006, the "Devicescape" networking stack was, with great
 fanfare, released under the GPL and made available for inclusion in the
 mainline kernel.  This donation was welcome news; support for wireless
 networking in Linux was considered substandard at best, and the Devicescape
 stack offered the promise of fixing that situation.  Yet, this code did not
-actually make it into the mainline until June, 2007 (2.6.22).  What
+actually make it into the mainline until June 2007 (2.6.22).  What
 happened?
 
 This code showed a number of signs of having been developed behind
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ regression in the first place.
 It is often argued that a regression can be justified if it causes things
 to work for more people than it creates problems for.  Why not make a
 change if it brings new functionality to ten systems for each one it
-breaks?  The best answer to this question was expressed by Linus in July,
+breaks?  The best answer to this question was expressed by Linus in July
 2007:
 
 ::
diff --git a/Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst b/Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst
index 43291704338e..185651d87f2a 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/7.AdvancedTopics.rst
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ When you are ready to start putting up git trees for others to look at, you
 will, of course, need a server that can be pulled from.  Setting up such a
 server with git-daemon is relatively straightforward if you have a system
 which is accessible to the Internet.  Otherwise, free, public hosting sites
-(Github, for example) are starting to appear on the net.  Established
+(GitHub, for example) are starting to appear on the net.  Established
 developers can get an account on kernel.org, but those are not easy to come
 by; see https://kernel.org/faq/ for more information.
 
-- 
2.51.2


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