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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-18 01:22:26 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-18 01:22:26 +0200
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parentDocumentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible builds (diff)
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Merge tag 'docs-5.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It's a somewhat calmer cycle for docs this time, as the churn of the mass RST conversion is happily mostly behind us. - A new document on reproducible builds. - We finally got around to zapping the documentation for hardware support that was removed in 2004; one doesn't want to rush these things. - The usual assortment of fixes, typo corrections, etc" * tag 'docs-5.4' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (67 commits) Documentation: kbuild: Add document about reproducible builds docs: printk-formats: Stop encouraging use of unnecessary %h[xudi] and %hh[xudi] Documentation: Add "earlycon=sbi" to the admin guide doc:lock: remove reference to clever use of read-write lock devices.txt: improve entry for comedi (char major 98) docs: mtd: Update spi nor reference driver doc: arm64: fix grammar dtb placed in no attributes region Documentation: sysrq: don't recommend 'S' 'U' before 'B' mailmap: Update email address for Quentin Perret docs: ftrace: clarify when tracing is disabled by the trace file docs: process: fix broken link Documentation/arm/samsung-s3c24xx: Remove stray U+FEFF character to fix title Documentation/arm/sa1100/assabet: Fix 'make assabet_defconfig' command Documentation/arm/sa1100: Remove some obsolete documentation docs/zh_CN: update Chinese howto.rst for latexdocs making Documentation: virt: Fix broken reference to virt tree's index docs: Fix typo on pull requests guide kernel-doc: Allow anonymous enum Documentation: sphinx: Don't parse socket() as identifier reference Documentation: sphinx: Add missing comma to list of strings ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/process')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/email-clients.rst20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/howto.rst2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst2
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
index 07faa5457bcb..5273d06c8ff6 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/email-clients.rst
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Emailed patches should be in ASCII or UTF-8 encoding only.
If you configure your email client to send emails with UTF-8 encoding,
you avoid some possible charset problems.
-Email clients should generate and maintain References: or In-Reply-To:
+Email clients should generate and maintain "References:" or "In-Reply-To:"
headers so that mail threading is not broken.
Copy-and-paste (or cut-and-paste) usually does not work for patches
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Claws Mail (GUI)
Works. Some people use this successfully for patches.
-To insert a patch use :menuselection:`Message-->Insert` File (:kbd:`CTRL-I`)
+To insert a patch use :menuselection:`Message-->Insert File` (:kbd:`CTRL-I`)
or an external editor.
If the inserted patch has to be edited in the Claws composition window
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ wrapping.
At the bottom of your email, put the commonly-used patch delimiter before
inserting your patch: three hyphens (``---``).
-Then from the :menuselection:`Message` menu item, select insert file and
-choose your patch.
+Then from the :menuselection:`Message` menu item, select
+:menuselection:`insert file` and choose your patch.
As an added bonus you can customise the message creation toolbar menu
and put the :menuselection:`insert file` icon there.
@@ -149,18 +149,16 @@ patches so do not GPG sign them. Signing patches that have been inserted
as inlined text will make them tricky to extract from their 7-bit encoding.
If you absolutely must send patches as attachments instead of inlining
-them as text, right click on the attachment and select properties, and
-highlight :menuselection:`Suggest automatic display` to make the attachment
+them as text, right click on the attachment and select :menuselection:`properties`,
+and highlight :menuselection:`Suggest automatic display` to make the attachment
inlined to make it more viewable.
When saving patches that are sent as inlined text, select the email that
contains the patch from the message list pane, right click and select
:menuselection:`save as`. You can use the whole email unmodified as a patch
-if it was properly composed. There is no option currently to save the email
-when you are actually viewing it in its own window -- there has been a request
-filed at kmail's bugzilla and hopefully this will be addressed. Emails are
-saved as read-write for user only so you will have to chmod them to make them
-group and world readable if you copy them elsewhere.
+if it was properly composed. Emails are saved as read-write for user only so
+you will have to chmod them to make them group and world readable if you copy
+them elsewhere.
Lotus Notes (GUI)
*****************
diff --git a/Documentation/process/howto.rst b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
index 6ab75c11d2c3..b6f5a379ad6c 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/howto.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/howto.rst
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ required reading:
https://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
"Linux kernel patch submission format"
- http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
+ https://web.archive.org/web/20180829112450/http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
:ref:`Documentation/process/stable-api-nonsense.rst <stable_api_nonsense>`
This file describes the rationale behind the conscious decision to
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 9c4299293c72..fb56297f70dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp).
<http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt>
Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format".
- <http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html>
+ <https://web.archive.org/web/20180829112450/http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html>
Greg Kroah-Hartman, "How to piss off a kernel subsystem maintainer".
<http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/maintainer.html>