Re: [PATCH] Documentation: drop optional BOMs

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> 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 <rdunlap@infradead.org>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
> Cc: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
> ---
>  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