From: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> commit 6d5aa418b3bd42cdccc36e94ee199af423ef7c84 upstream. The reference to `explicit_in_reply_to` is pointless as when the reference was added in the form of "#15" [1], Section 15) was "The canonical patch format". The reference of "#15" had not been properly updated in a couple of reorganizations during the plain-text SubmittingPatches era. Fix it by using `the_canonical_patch_format`. [1]: 2ae19acaa50a ("Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches") Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@xxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 5903019b2a5e ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: convert it to ReST markup") Fixes: 9b2c76777acc ("Documentation/SubmittingPatches: enrich the Sphinx output") Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v4.9+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/64e105a5-50be-23f2-6cae-903a2ea98e18@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ as you intend it to. The maintainer will thank you if you write your patch description in a form which can be easily pulled into Linux's source code management -system, ``git``, as a "commit log". See :ref:`explicit_in_reply_to`. +system, ``git``, as a "commit log". See :ref:`the_canonical_patch_format`. Solve only one problem per patch. If your description starts to get long, that's a sign that you probably need to split up your patch.