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Would another imperative wording become helpful for an improved change des= cription? https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Do= cumentation/process/submitting-patches.rst?h=3Dv6.18-rc6#n94 Regards, Markus