Re: [PATCH 1/1] docs: Fix minor grammatical error

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 6/9/26 07:50, Brigham Campbell wrote:
> On Sat Jun 6, 2026 at 1:10 PM MDT, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Can't you just modify the first line only and leave the other 3 changed lines
>> intact?
> 
> I'm not as familiar with the kernel documentation project as I am with
> the code itself. I figured that it's generally preferred to maintain
> 80-character hard wrapping consistently across all documentation. Is it
> actually preferable to _not_ reflow text after editing in order to avoid
> munging the git history?

It's a "80-character wrapping" vs "keep patches small/simple/obvious"
situation where one has to weighting things up against each other.

If you'd change one thing in a line that would make the line say only
something like 60 characters or less long, then reflowing becomes the
right thing, as the para otherwise would look odd.

But in this case it won't matter much, so it's likely better to not
reflow to keep the patch smaller.

In the end it's a judgement call that the maintainer has to make. I
don't care much, but if I'd be forced to decide for one way or the other
I'd go with what Randy suggested.

BTW, thx for fixing this!

Ciao, Thorsten