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Signed-off-by: Volodymyr Kot --- 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