[PATCH] docs: arm: tcm: Fix typo in description of TCM and MMU usage

Jonathan Corbet corbet at lwn.net
Thu Jun 9 09:01:01 PDT 2022


Simon Horman <simon.horman at corigine.com> writes:

> Correct a typo in the description of interaction between
> the TCM and MMU.
>
> Found by inspection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens at corigine.com>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at corigine.com>

Here too I have to ask: what does this signoff chain mean?  If two
developers were needed for a single-character typo fix, then a
Co-developed-by line is appropriate.  If you are forwarding a patch from
Louis, then a From: line to get the authorship right is indicated ... ?

>  Documentation/arm/tcm.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/arm/tcm.rst b/Documentation/arm/tcm.rst
> index b256f9783883..1dc6c39220f9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/arm/tcm.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/arm/tcm.rst
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ CPU so it is usually wise not to overlap any physical RAM with
>  the TCM.
>  
>  The TCM memory can then be remapped to another address again using
> -the MMU, but notice that the TCM if often used in situations where
> +the MMU, but notice that the TCM is often used in situations where
>  the MMU is turned off. To avoid confusion the current Linux
>  implementation will map the TCM 1 to 1 from physical to virtual

Thanks,

jon



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