On Thu, Dec 9, 2021 at 2:09 AM Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) <alx.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/9/21 00:44, Jann Horn wrote: > > The manpage claims that kcmp() is now available unconditionally. That's > > not true; from kernel/Makefile: > > > > obj-$(CONFIG_KCMP) += kcmp.o > > > > This new Kconfig flag is forced on by CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE as > > before, but also by CONFIG_DRM, which means that pretty much any kernel > > built to support desktop systems will implicitly have it available. > > > > But if you compiled some kind of server/embedded kernel without DRM and > > without CHECKPOINT_RESTORE, you'd have to flip on the expert config > > option to get KCMP. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks! Patch applied. Oh, that was quick! Thanks. > I slightly modified the patch for the following reason: > > man-pages(7): > Use semantic newlines > In the source of a manual page, new sentences should be > started on new lines, and long sentences should be split > into lines at clause breaks (commas, semicolons, colons, > and so on). This convention, sometimes known as "seman‐ > tic newlines", makes it easier to see the effect of > patches, which often operate at the level of individual > sentences or sentence clauses. Ah, thanks for the pointer. I'll try to remember it for next time...
