Re: [PATCH] docs: conf.py: fix the 'utf-8' typo

[Jonathan Corbet]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "encoding" should be 'utf-8'. Fix the typo.
>
> Fixes: 7ea9a550f710 ("docs: conf.py: several coding style fixes")
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>  Documentation/conf.py |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- linux-next-20260805.orig/Documentation/conf.py
> +++ linux-next-20260805/Documentation/conf.py
> @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ author = "The kernel development communi
>  try:
>      makefile_version = None
>      makefile_patchlevel = None
> -    with open("../Makefile", encoding="utf=8") as fp:
> +    with open("../Makefile", encoding="utf-8") as fp:
>          for line in fp:

So this is somewhat weird... open() will throw an exception with an
unknown encoding, but takes "utf=8" without complaint.  Somehow they are
explicitly handling that case.  So the code is arguably correct :)

That said, I've applied the patch, thanks.

jon