Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Fix crossref to 'The canonical patch format'

From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Fix crossref to 'The canonical patch format'
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:29:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkwl6oz3.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64e105a5-50be-23f2-6cae-903a2ea98e18@gmail.com>

Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> writes:

> The reference to `explicit_in_reply_to` is pointless as when the
> reference was added in the form of "#15" [1], Section 15) was "The
> canonical patch format".
> The reference of "#15" had not been properly updated in a couple of
> reorganizations during the plain-text SubmittingPatches era.
>
> Fix it by using `the_canonical_patch_format`.
>
> [1]: 2ae19acaa50a ("Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches")
>
> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> Fixes: 5903019b2a5e ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: convert it to ReST markup")
> Fixes: 9b2c76777acc ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: enrich the Sphinx output")
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.9+
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Applied, thanks.

jon