Re: [PATCH] ext4, doc: remove unnecessary bracket

From: Randy Dunlap

Date: Wed Sep 02 2026 - 14:42:25 EST




On 9/2/26 7:32 AM, Manuel Ebner wrote:
> Remove needless '('.
>
> Signed-off-by: Manuel Ebner <manuelebnerli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst
> index 9b003a4d4..f3eeca844 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4/directory.rst
> @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ block (precisely the length of one dx_entry) are used to store a
> ``count`` entries in the dx_root/dx_node structures are adjusted as
> necessary to fit the dx_tail into the block. If there is no space for
> the dx_tail, the user is notified to run e2fsck -D to rebuild the
> -directory index (which will ensure that there's space for the checksum.
> +directory index which will ensure that there's space for the checksum.

To me, it needs either a closing parenthesis or a comma, like:

directory index, which will ensure

> The dx_tail structure is 8 bytes long and looks like this:
>
> .. list-table::

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~Randy