Re: [PATCH v2] jobserver: Fix typo in docstring

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Tue Mar 17 2026 - 10:55:28 EST


Ricardo Ungerer <ungerer.ricardo@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This commit fixes small typos in the docstring of jobserver.py.

For future reference, our guidance says to avoid "this commit", and some
maintainers are pretty firm about that.

> Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ungerer <ungerer.ricardo@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Fix a Sphynx regression created by v1 when removed the second colon.
> ---
> tools/lib/python/jobserver.py | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/python/jobserver.py b/tools/lib/python/jobserver.py
> index aba22c33393d..0b1ffdf9f7a3 100755
> --- a/tools/lib/python/jobserver.py
> +++ b/tools/lib/python/jobserver.py
> @@ -8,14 +8,14 @@
> """
> Interacts with the POSIX jobserver during the Kernel build time.
>
> -A "normal" jobserver task, like the one initiated by a make subrocess would do:
> +A "normal" jobserver task, like the one initiated by a make subprocess would do:
>
> - open read/write file descriptors to communicate with the job server;
> - ask for one slot by calling::
>
> claim = os.read(reader, 1)
>
> - - when the job finshes, call::
> + - when the job finishes, call::
>

Applied, thanks.

jon