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=-0.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no 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 59999C47247 for ; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A43C2073B for ; Tue, 5 May 2020 15:48:24 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="pexb9f2U" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729569AbgEEPsX (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2020 11:48:23 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:35534 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729510AbgEEPsX (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 May 2020 11:48:23 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [IPv6:2607:7c80:54:e::133]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 97F1EC061A0F; Tue, 5 May 2020 08:48:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version :References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=OusNCOqemtoO4geSkrjF3iyDZazZu9c7fA42HGUJsLA=; b=pexb9f2UBa1sTSKB+3uC1VGFed ccq0bPqD/XU4okEaJLLyeYAXzZf1T4lyxVGzb8NBxRvfKga8SVd1emR4PGIh2xelx+5K1leFfqvCg WyZAIUxkeJrdI5PbCOU0qpviOJsx7v8IHFP57w2gk78YAPtBeoOFm1UJj3NnWfZJLEuwMiCz3zQVp iS+t/ZSU+DX1cdPtLB2ZbqAnergroRMXA6//1AqzAH9qki0MuobmApf2rOMpc9Kz7j9euh7NncnUI PZy/KEbdOeW90aCrkwGl/nnt0fORL9AOpe8moBrixx80s1m36DOdaAGwuQeDqsDc7tUDosDBJiVsG mEgLoGEA==; Received: from willy by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.92.3 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1jVzns-0000ON-QN; Tue, 05 May 2020 15:48:17 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 May 2020 08:48:16 -0700 From: Matthew Wilcox To: Waiman Long Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Tony Luck , Borislav Petkov , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , James Morse , Robert Richter , linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst Message-ID: <20200505154816.GH16070@bombadil.infradead.org> References: <20200505151049.11134-1-longman@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200505151049.11134-1-longman@redhat.com> Sender: linux-edac-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 11:10:49AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > Fix typo errors. By reformatting it, you've successfully obscured what typos you've fixed. As a result I read the whole paragraph, and ... > ECC memory > ---------- > > -As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to be > -used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module > -has 64 bits of *data width*, and 74 bits of *total width*. So, there are > -8 bits extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction > +As mentioned on the previous section, ECC memory has extra bits to s/on/in/ > +be used for error correction. So, on 64 bit systems, a memory module > +has 64 bits of *data width*, and 72 bits of *total width*. Usually a 64-bit system refers to the width of a pointer. Here, it's referring to the width of the memory system, which is rather confusing. How about "In the above example" instead of "So, on 64 bit systems". > So, there > +are 8 extra bits to be used for the error detection and correction > mechanisms. Those extra bits are called *syndrome*\ [#f1]_\ [#f2]_. This would read better as: The extra 8 bits which are used for error detection and correction are referred to as the *syndrome*\ [#f1]_\ [#f2]_.