From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-15.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F59C433ED for ; Mon, 10 May 2021 21:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2EC6143B for ; Mon, 10 May 2021 21:17:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232336AbhEJVSm (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2021 17:18:42 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:54254 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229810AbhEJVSg (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 May 2021 17:18:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (unknown [IPv6:2601:281:8300:104d::5f6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4ADCD6D6; Mon, 10 May 2021 21:17:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 ms.lwn.net 4ADCD6D6 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lwn.net; s=20201203; t=1620681449; bh=bMfhGN2Sb5awdnhBL0PMAadt6SFAO53pU1Yu0mUz7Lo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:From; b=LuTteKp+df+DrnQuj+GhvAJQ78fC9PgLQx2EuY8J0l5yVpKMF1xg/BoEM6SllgbTq uNokbTg9glKu8ueUu5g5aG3YZFDEBOO9TyIs31XwPbE7eMG0JjH+nQVLbwlbxbdn/i Q0XTWLxR2B9Ba3zRIefuTrxfXzlRa0lj8V5XcSZYYjMePUprIiCRGF9aLAycuqBiR8 vEOVgc7vd1gYBqDQu8WXApV/rqpw26+xgYpgjBFM1+eZST6P1hiLd7XLR5kp7cyrac LiqQx7TtYuPl32A6LFCNBBvFO+41yAWpwy/gfrUo+F4hpvV6GBQJfsWC8mbbULhHC4 fP2+u36ka6Ymw== From: Jonathan Corbet To: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Federico Vaga , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Matthew Wilcox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: drop optional BOMs In-Reply-To: <20210506231907.14359-1-rdunlap@infradead.org> References: <20210506231907.14359-1-rdunlap@infradead.org> Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 15:17:28 -0600 Message-ID: <875yzqffvb.fsf@meer.lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Randy Dunlap writes: > A few of the Documentation .rst files begin with a Unicode > byte order mark (BOM). The BOM may signify endianess for > 16-bit or 32-bit encodings or indicate that the text stream > is indeed Unicode. We don't need it for either of those uses. > It may also interfere with (confuse) some software. > > Since we don't need it and its use is optional, just delete > the uses of it in Documentation/. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark > > Fixes: 898bd37a9206 ("docs: block: convert to ReST") > Fixes: edba5eecfd6e ("doc:it_IT: add some process/* translations") > Fixes: 675aaf05d898 ("docs: xen-tpmfront.txt: convert it to .rstX") > Fixes: 458f69ef3665 ("docs: timers: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst") > Fixes: d80b5005c5dd ("docs: usb: convert documents to ReST") > Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap > Cc: Jonathan Corbet > Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab > Cc: Federico Vaga > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Cc: Matthew Wilcox > --- > Documentation/block/data-integrity.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/security/tpm/xen-tpmfront.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/timers/no_hz.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/usb/mtouchusb.rst | 2 +- > Documentation/usb/usb-serial.rst | 2 +- > 6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Applied, thanks. jon