Re: [PATCH] docs: staging: fix various typos and grammar issues

From: Randy Dunlap

Date: Thu Apr 16 2026 - 17:11:58 EST




On 4/16/26 3:58 AM, Zhang Xiaolei wrote:
> Fix a few typographical and grammatical issues across several
> staging documentation files to improve readability:
> - crc32.rst: replace "decide in" with "decide on"
> - lzo.rst: replace "independent on" with "independent of"
> - remoteproc.rst: fix word order in dependent clause
> - static-keys.rst: add hyphen to "low-level"
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiaolei <zxl434815272@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks.

> ---
> Documentation/staging/crc32.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/staging/lzo.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/staging/remoteproc.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/staging/static-keys.rst | 2 +-
> 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/staging/crc32.rst b/Documentation/staging/crc32.rst
> index 64f3dd430a6c..fc0d9564b99c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/staging/crc32.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/staging/crc32.rst
> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ the byte-at-a-time table method, popularized by Dilip V. Sarwate,
> v.31 no.8 (August 1988) p. 1008-1013.
>
> Here, rather than just shifting one bit of the remainder to decide
> -in the correct multiple to subtract, we can shift a byte at a time.
> +on the correct multiple to subtract, we can shift a byte at a time.
> This produces a 40-bit (rather than a 33-bit) intermediate remainder,
> and the correct multiple of the polynomial to subtract is found using
> a 256-entry lookup table indexed by the high 8 bits.
> diff --git a/Documentation/staging/lzo.rst b/Documentation/staging/lzo.rst
> index f65b51523014..2d48b2667dd2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/staging/lzo.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/staging/lzo.rst
> @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ Description
> are called under the assumption that a certain number of bytes follow
> because it has already been guaranteed before parsing the instructions.
> They just have to "refill" this credit if they consume extra bytes. This
> - is an implementation design choice independent on the algorithm or
> + is an implementation design choice independent of the algorithm or
> encoding.
>
> Versions
> diff --git a/Documentation/staging/remoteproc.rst b/Documentation/staging/remoteproc.rst
> index 5c226fa076d6..c117b060e76c 100644
> --- a/Documentation/staging/remoteproc.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/staging/remoteproc.rst
> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ handlers, and then all rpmsg drivers will then just work
> (for more information about the virtio-based rpmsg bus and its drivers,
> please read Documentation/staging/rpmsg.rst).
> Registration of other types of virtio devices is now also possible. Firmwares
> -just need to publish what kind of virtio devices do they support, and then
> +just need to publish what kind of virtio devices they support, and then
> remoteproc will add those devices. This makes it possible to reuse the
> existing virtio drivers with remote processor backends at a minimal development
> cost.
> diff --git a/Documentation/staging/static-keys.rst b/Documentation/staging/static-keys.rst
> index b0a519f456cf..e8dc3a87c381 100644
> --- a/Documentation/staging/static-keys.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/staging/static-keys.rst
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ out-of-line true branch. Thus, changing branch direction is expensive but
> branch selection is basically 'free'. That is the basic tradeoff of this
> optimization.
>
> -This lowlevel patching mechanism is called 'jump label patching', and it gives
> +This low-level patching mechanism is called 'jump label patching', and it gives
> the basis for the static keys facility.
>
> Static key label API, usage and examples

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~Randy