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4 year old got her first linux kernel patch accepted (mastodon.social)

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https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/24/407

Date	Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:42:06 -0700
From	Jonathan Corbet &lt;>
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Documentation: fix formatting to make 's' happy

On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:54:17 +0200 (EET)
Tero Roponen  wrote:

> From: Maisa Roponen 
> 
> "That letter [the last s] is sad because all the others
> have those things [=] below them and it does not."
> 
> This patch fixes the tragedy so all the letters can
> be happy again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maisa Roponen 
> [The author being 4 years old needed some assistance]
> Signed-off-by: Tero Roponen 
>

> When I was reading the documentation, my 4-year-old
> niece wanted to see what I was doing. After telling her,
> she noticed that something was very wrong and asked
> me to fix it. Instead, I helped her fix it herself.

Please inform your niece that the patch has been applied and that the
lonely "s" need pine away no longer.

Thanks,

jon