Re: [PATCH] docs: kernel-hacking: Remove the word fuck,trying to be civil :)

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Feb 11 2021 - 12:46:28 EST


Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> s/fuck//
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
> index c3448929a824..ed1284c6f078 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-hacking/locking.rst
> @@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ grabs a read lock, searches a list, fails to find what it wants, drops
> the read lock, grabs a write lock and inserts the object has a race
> condition.
>
> -If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
> +If you don't see why, please stay away from my code.

Sigh.

I've gotten a few variants of this patch over the years...I guess maybe
the time has come to apply one, so I did. If the word is too offensive
to be in our docs, though, perhaps it shouldn't be in the changelog
either, so I rewrote it:

docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil

Remove the f-bomb from locking.rst. Let's have a moment of silence,
though, as we mark the passing of the last of Rusty's once plentiful
profanities in this venerable document.

Thanks,

jon