From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2FA4542A9D; Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:55:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771091739; cv=none; b=d+VsEVpxzqBneddHc4YXfYXX9Mw15eeLWaHQ3ynmYb/cTuMpUxQllQ3xtllvb3P9jr3UZAWYGKgaOWdkU9qPZ5WoawGghmalNxOFKhpK+PLGdeEb9v9uLPBhD/po/EJX+YaXeayfxbb9qx0bvpubNvBFE+DX+54dMH4tnJdjeF0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1771091739; c=relaxed/simple; bh=8k9p35h4k1nHlxAsWZiTzXWplhkVW7scDXKOelaLXoQ=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:Subject:To:Cc:References:From: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=XCIPrF2QIAp1QFMEt7/I2wbOEnZ7/5sL3GYs5gWji/HD0Xm86mY2/Thvf+ZxIiVDnC9gOx3UlrzW0WkrX5tsueWh1dHGhiURHnjAFF7V+14FMzoEteqPfAG8tenBy+9ILiXoc6y0Da3So0VwnSPNsqfcT0EZNJQXh9DaCEmTFm4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b=g9JeU5hR; arc=none smtp.client-ip=198.137.202.133 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=infradead.org Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=infradead.org header.i=@infradead.org header.b="g9JeU5hR" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:From:References:Cc:To:Subject:MIME-Version:Date: Message-ID:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=ZXyKMHp2eF9MbF3RSLLokv0H96duorRO1W4c3XjM0U4=; b=g9JeU5hRSv8Cxbkc4GMpENLkoq Juy8SXTbJEOW7szrX//LL/iHgXvnL2W2pXzrzCouW80ngIQUuhAsK+Edx+N5kL/etVfoft8+5LHVG tfqH+rIO1AUqFJ4Oz05ewF+Br7opcfriREBgK5ni4ixyD0Iq8fY7RFUBy++Cmikxs1Bf0tNFWXtNx qUKtYIR9Yn1BN1CKGssLWb8DU7O/xVSUkngqgP63AjtOHQprz+Z3xWm0GZtcnYmUmAojhQH9ewhzV 09/Esk3l7a1mkZ4605BnYl3yDJ4vYFeK/Mz79xKLM4mAvE1MrDmGCuhmgza7LHykYGSdKB5ORiqNO 4G748meg==; Received: from [50.53.43.113] (helo=[192.168.254.34]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.98.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1vrJrg-00000004orp-3ECM; Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:55:32 +0000 Message-ID: <156baf88-cd00-4bbc-917a-0b1b9b79b2cd@infradead.org> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:55:32 -0800 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: clarify wording in programming-language.rst To: Jonathan Corbet , Ariful Islam Shoikot , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan References: <20260214132842.1161-1-islamarifulshoikat@gmail.com> <87ms1bqmh0.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Content-Language: en-US From: Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: <87ms1bqmh0.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2/14/26 9:11 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Ariful Islam Shoikot writes: > >> Clarify that the Linux kernel is written in C and improve >> punctuation in the clang sentence. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ariful Islam Shoikot >> --- >> Documentation/process/programming-language.rst | 6 +++--- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst >> index f39d1d3dd9ce..c18e307ccb56 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst >> +++ b/Documentation/process/programming-language.rst >> @@ -3,10 +3,10 @@ >> Programming Language >> ==================== >> >> -The kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_. >> -More precisely, the kernel is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_ >> +The Linux kernel is written in the C programming language [c-language]_. >> +More precisely, it is typically compiled with ``gcc`` [gcc]_ >> under ``-std=gnu11`` [gcc-c-dialect-options]_: the GNU dialect of ISO C11. >> -``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported, see docs on >> +``clang`` [clang]_ is also supported; see documentation on >> :ref:`Building Linux with Clang/LLVM `. > > So you have tidied up the language, but not addressed the fact that the > information is somewhat outdated. Clang is a first-class option these > days, and the documentation should probably reflect that. > > Oh well, I've applied this as a good start :) Maybe mention Rust as well? -- ~Randy