On Thu, 21 Mar 2019 14:37:56 +1300
Tom Levy <[email protected]> wrote:

> The instructions for generating patches are given as shell commands
> with variables as placeholders. They use the syntax "SRCTREE= linux",
> which is wrong for the Bourne shell family (it runs the command
> "linux" with the variable "SRCTREE" set to the empty string).
> 
> Remove the spaces to avoid confusion. This breaks the pretty alignment
> but helps new contributors who try to run the commands as written.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Levy <[email protected]>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>

Applied, thanks.  Though I agree with Jani that this advice is looking a
little dated in general...

jon

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