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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: workflows@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	regressions@lists.linux.dev,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] docs: add a document about regression handling
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:16:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4b433d55-95de-963b-7351-6db79855824b@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8d7228a-2df5-df92-6d53-c3e940274dad@leemhuis.info>



On 1/26/22 06:10, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>>> +The important bits for people affected by regressions
>>> +=====================================================
>>> +
>>> +It's a regression if something running fine with one Linux kernel works worse or
>>> +not at all with a newer version. Note, the newer kernel has to be compiled using
>>> +a similar configuration -- for this and other fine print, check out below
>>> +section "What is a 'regression' and what is the 'no regressions rule'?".
>> Can we be consistent with either single or double quotes?  I'd suggest
>> "double quotes" but won't make a fuss about that.
> Changed to "double quotes" everywhere in the text. But just to make sure
> I get things right: in this particular case this will result in
> 
> ...section "What is a "regression" and what is the "no regressions rule"?".
> 
> This looks a bit strange to me. Something in me really would like to
> quote the section's header in single quotes, but I guess grammar rules
> do not allow that, so whatever. :-D
> 

I think that it was correct with the mixed quotes. Using all double
quotes here is confusing.

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-26 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-25 11:44 [PATCH v3 0/2] docs: add a text about regressions to the Linux kernel's documentation Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-25 11:44 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] docs: add a document about regression handling Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-25 23:59   ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-01-26 14:10     ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-26 17:16       ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2022-01-31 14:22       ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-26 14:28   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-02-02 11:46     ` Thorsten Leemhuis
2022-01-25 11:44 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] docs: regressions.rst: rules of thumb for handling regressions Thorsten Leemhuis

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