Commit 9e66f74c authored by Karel Balej's avatar Karel Balej Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: *-regressions.rst: unify quoting, add missing word

Quoting of the '"no regressions" rule' expression differs between
occurrences, sometimes being presented as '"no regressions rule"'. Unify
the quoting using the first form which seems semantically correct or is
at least used dominantly, albeit marginally.

One of the occurrences is obviously missing the 'rule' part -- add it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKarel Balej <balejk@matfyz.cz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarThorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240328194342.11760-2-balejk@matfyz.cz
parent 1e596d5e
......@@ -42,12 +42,12 @@ The important basics
--------------------
What is a "regression" and what is the "no regressions rule"?
What is a "regression" and what is the "no regressions" rule?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It's a regression if some application or practical use case running fine with
one Linux kernel works worse or not at all with a newer version compiled using a
similar configuration. The "no regressions rule" forbids this to take place; if
similar configuration. The "no regressions" rule forbids this to take place; if
it happens by accident, developers that caused it are expected to quickly fix
the issue.
......@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ Additional details about regressions
------------------------------------
What is the goal of the "no regressions rule"?
What is the goal of the "no regressions" rule?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Users should feel safe when updating kernel versions and not have to worry
......@@ -199,8 +199,8 @@ Exceptions to this rule are extremely rare; in the past developers almost always
turned out to be wrong when they assumed a particular situation was warranting
an exception.
Who ensures the "no regressions" is actually followed?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Who ensures the "no regressions" rule is actually followed?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The subsystem maintainers should take care of that, which are watched and
supported by the tree maintainers -- e.g. Linus Torvalds for mainline and
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......@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ What else is there to known about regressions?
Check out Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-regressions.rst, it covers a lot
of other aspects you want might want to be aware of:
* the purpose of the "no regressions rule"
* the purpose of the "no regressions" rule
* what issues actually qualify as regression
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