* [PATCH] Doc: correct spelling and wording mistakes
@ 2025-12-25 13:39 Volodymyr Kot
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From: Volodymyr Kot @ 2025-12-25 13:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jonathan Corbet; +Cc: workflows, linux-doc, linux-kernel, Volodymyr Kot
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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