[PATCH 4/5] docs: fix repeated prepositions across documentation

Shuah Khan skhan at linuxfoundation.org
Fri May 8 10:23:43 PDT 2026


On 5/8/26 10:38, Adrien Reynard wrote:

Missing commit log

> Signed-off-by: Adrien Reynard <reynard.adrien.08 at gmail.com>
> ---
>   Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst                   | 2 +-
>   Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst              | 2 +-
>   Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst | 2 +-
>   3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> index 4968b2aa60c8..3a8bd40ad905 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kasan.rst
> @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ reserved to tag freed memory regions.
>   If the hardware does not support MTE (pre ARMv8.5), Hardware Tag-Based KASAN
>   will not be enabled. In this case, all KASAN boot parameters are ignored.
>   
> -Note that enabling CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS always results in in-kernel TBI being
> +Note that enabling CONFIG_KASAN_HW_TAGS always results in-kernel TBI being

This is correct the way it is - no need to change this. "results in in-kernel"

>   enabled. Even when ``kasan.mode=off`` is provided or when the hardware does not
>   support MTE (but supports TBI).
>   
> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst
> index 2966b7122f05..948bce44ca9b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.rst
> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ The switchdev driver can know a particular port's position in the topology by
>   monitoring NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER notifications.  For example, a port moved into a
>   bond will see its upper master change.  If that bond is moved into a bridge,
>   the bond's upper master will change.  And so on.  The driver will track such
> -movements to know what position a port is in in the overall topology by
> +movements to know what position a port is in the overall topology by

This looks fine.

>   registering for netdevice events and acting on NETDEV_CHANGEUPPER.
>   
>   L2 Forwarding Offload
> diff --git a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> index c37e8e594d12..7b08738c30aa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/virt/uml/user_mode_linux_howto_v2.rst
> @@ -1092,7 +1092,7 @@ be formatted as plain text.
>   
>   Developing always goes hand in hand with debugging. First of all,
>   you can always run UML under gdb and there will be a whole section
> -later on on how to do that. That, however, is not the only way to
> +later on how to do that. That, however, is not the only way to

This change is not needed. If at all add a comma after "later" to make
a distinction between the use two back to back "on"s

  "later on,"

>   debug a Linux kernel. Quite often adding tracing statements and/or
>   using UML specific approaches such as ptracing the UML kernel process
>   are significantly more informative.

With these changes:

Reviewed-by: Shuah Khan <skhan at linuxfoundation.org>

thanks,
-- Shuah



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