From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752214AbdJFPDJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:03:09 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:59010 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751536AbdJFPDH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:03:07 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 09:03:06 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the kernel Message-ID: <20171006090306.6a8ba234@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20171006091038.GA16038@kroah.com> References: <20171006091038.GA16038@kroah.com> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:10:38 +0200 Greg Kroah-Hartman 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 > --- > > 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