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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the kernel
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 09:03:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171006090306.6a8ba234@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171006091038.GA16038@kroah.com>

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:10:38 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Way back in 2008 we didn't have "robust" in-kernel documentation system,
> so the idea of putting something like the kernel driver statement in the
> kernel tree wasn't even imagined.  But now that has changed, so add the
> old document to the kernel source itself to allow for us to properly
> reference it in one canonical place (as the LF wiki keeps moving things
> around.)
> 
> This also will allow people to add their names to it, as I seem to have
> lost the ability to do that by not knowing how to edit things on the
> original document.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> 
> Jon, if this isn't the correct place to put the document, I'd be glad to
> move it elsewhere, I just picked the first place that it seemed to fit
> into.

It seems like the perfect place to me, I went ahead and applied it.

Thanks,

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-10-06 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-06  9:10 [PATCH] Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the kernel Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-10-06 14:44 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2017-10-06 15:03 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2017-10-14 16:14 ` Wolfram Sang
2017-10-14 16:26   ` gregkh
2017-10-14 18:09     ` Wolfram Sang
2017-10-14 19:50       ` gregkh
2017-10-16 14:19         ` Jani Nikula

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