Re: [PATCH] doc: move namespaces.rst out of kbuild directory

From: Matthias Maennich <maennich@google.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>,
	Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	Adam Zerella <adam.zerella@gmail.com>,
	Michal Marek <michal.lkml@markovi.net>,
	linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: move namespaces.rst out of kbuild directory
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 14:41:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191007134124.GC23938@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191007072930.07b1e90a@lwn.net>

On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 07:29:30AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:12:42 +0200
>Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote:
>
>> This was my line of thought as well, since the audience of
>> admin-guide/ is sysadmins and users. Namespaces are mostly relevant to
>> module authors and kernel developers. Currently, I don't think there
>> is an existing good place in Documentation/ for this topic :-/
>> I suppose kernel-hacking/ might be the closest fit, as Adam suggested.
>
>I didn't see this thread before responding in the first, naturally...
>
>I think the core-api manual is probably as good a place as any for this.
>Changing the name to something like symbol-namespaces.rst is probably a
>good idea, since most people think of other things when they see
>"namespaces".  Or perhaps that mythical Somebody could expand it into a
>proper description of symbol exports in general...:)

As I said in the other thread, I am happy for it to be moved to a better
location. core-api/ as well as kernel-hacking/ seem to be good
locations.

I could imagine expanding the documentation, but would not like to
commit to it right now. (Even though I feel very encouraged by your talk
in Paris, Jon. Thanks for that!)

Cheers,
Matthias

>
>Thanks,
>
>jon