Re: [PATCH 0/7] docs: core-api: Fix stale function names and a broken example

From: Jonathan Corbet

Date: Mon Aug 31 2026 - 17:34:55 EST


Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> A review of Documentation/core-api turned up a handful of places where
> the text names a function that does not exist, or an example command
> that cannot work as written. Each one is a plain typo from the day the
> text was written rather than an API rename: for every patch the wrong
> name was checked against the tree at the time of the Fixes: commit, and
> the correct name exists in current mainline.
>
> The changes are independent of each other and only touch prose and
> examples, so each can be applied on its own.
>
> Karl Mehltretter (7):
> docs: cpu_hotplug: Fix multi-instance removal calls
> docs: irq-affinity: Restore grep in example
> docs: dma-attributes: Fix dma_alloc_attrs() name
> docs: swiotlb: Fix maximum mapping size helper
> docs: this_cpu_ops: Fix SRCU helper names
> docs: xarray: Fix xas_try_split() name
> docs: debugobjects: Fix debug_object_init() name
>
> Documentation/core-api/cpu_hotplug.rst | 4 ++--
> Documentation/core-api/irq/irq-affinity.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/dma-attributes.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/swiotlb.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/this_cpu_ops.rst | 6 +++---
> Documentation/core-api/xarray.rst | 2 +-
> Documentation/core-api/debug-objects.rst | 2 +-
> 7 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

I've applied the set, thanks.

jon