On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:37:56 +1300 Tom Levy <tomlevy93@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The instructions for generating patches are given as shell commands > with variables as placeholders. They use the syntax "SRCTREE= linux", > which is wrong for the Bourne shell family (it runs the command > "linux" with the variable "SRCTREE" set to the empty string). > > Remove the spaces to avoid confusion. This breaks the pretty alignment > but helps new contributors who try to run the commands as written. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Levy <tomlevy93@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Applied, thanks. Though I agree with Jani that this advice is looking a little dated in general... jon
