Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: Coccinelle: fix various typos etc.

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Thu Jul 02 2020 - 07:52:56 EST


On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 08:56:24AM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> â
> > +++ linux-next-20200629/Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst
> â
> > @@ -260,13 +260,13 @@ If not using the kernel's coccicheck tar
> â
> > -We help Coccinelle when used against Linux with a set of sensible defaults
> > +We help Coccinelle when used against Linux with a set of sensible default
> > options for Linux with our own Linux .cocciconfig. This hints to coccinelle
>
> Another small wording adjustment:
> â These hints â

That would be an incorrect adjustment. Unfortunately, you snipped the
rest of the sentence that puts those two words in context. Basically it's
shorter for "By doing this, we hint to coccinelle" rather than "These
things are hints to coccinelle"