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

[Randy Dunlap]

On 2/11/21 9:04 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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.

I really like that tribute there, Jon. :)

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~Randy