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=-2.4 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 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 079B2C28CBC for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 16:19:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D258A208DB for ; Wed, 6 May 2020 16:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="iYwQfvlN" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729559AbgEFQTk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2020 12:19:40 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-1.mimecast.com ([207.211.31.81]:24872 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729239AbgEFQTk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 May 2020 12:19:40 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1588781979; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=2GKepkm35dnbxL0GRcTMB1GSJjAjSbjaZHFzrucw9MU=; b=iYwQfvlNrnClmA/7Sq8BuAu6FL/AKIdWNybv6psbg+32n0pNYMAF1p9OO9hgd0BN7RRrTf 4JuadVmX9XacLH84Po5E5irf5l1WFgvLsL8Fc+cAV6Ev5dnu8q85vWOaTtn+mUwg9al/a2 +ZUxp8AfhHsC4cEhucfoFrAPA5JE0y8= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-449-Bkox4T9tOHuNT_4Svzzcng-1; Wed, 06 May 2020 12:19:37 -0400 X-MC-Unique: Bkox4T9tOHuNT_4Svzzcng-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx08.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E171107ACCD; Wed, 6 May 2020 16:19:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from llong.remote.csb (ovpn-116-141.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.141]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A029299D2; Wed, 6 May 2020 16:19:33 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix some typo errors in ras.rst To: Matthew Wilcox 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 References: <20200505151049.11134-1-longman@redhat.com> <20200505154816.GH16070@bombadil.infradead.org> From: Waiman Long Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 12:19:33 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200505154816.GH16070@bombadil.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.23 Sender: linux-edac-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org On 5/5/20 11:48 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > 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]_. > Thanks for the suggestion. Will incorporate that in v2. -Longman