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But hey! You're >>> the Doc maintainer. If you prefer to move, I'm perfectly fine >>> with that. >>> >> >> Same here, but please don't move the files which are kernel facing only. > > Well, let's step back and think about this. Who is the audience for > these documents? That will tell us a lot about where they should really > be. > Most of them are for users, some of them are for driver developers. A few are for both, though that is generally not the intention (and one may argue that driver internal documentation should be moved into the respective driver source). > What I would prefer to avoid is the status quo where *everything* is in > the top-level directory, and where documents are organized for the > convenience of their maintainers rather than of their readers. But > sometimes I feel like I'm alone in that desire...:) > I am fine with separating user pointing from kernel API/driver developer guides, and I agree that it would make a lot of sense. As I said, please just make sure that kernel facing files don't end up in the wrong directory. 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Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190412100451.6fe49de7@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare , linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, Linux Doc Mailing List , Andrew Jeffery , Sudeep Holla , Liviu Dudau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Paul Mackerras , Joel Stanley , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On 4/12/19 9:04 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:07:31 -0700 > Guenter Roeck wrote: > >>> While nobody does such split, IMHO, the best would be to keep the >>> information outside Documentation/admin-guide. But hey! You're >>> the Doc maintainer. If you prefer to move, I'm perfectly fine >>> with that. >>> >> >> Same here, but please don't move the files which are kernel facing only. > > Well, let's step back and think about this. Who is the audience for > these documents? That will tell us a lot about where they should really > be. > Most of them are for users, some of them are for driver developers. A few are for both, though that is generally not the intention (and one may argue that driver internal documentation should be moved into the respective driver source). > What I would prefer to avoid is the status quo where *everything* is in > the top-level directory, and where documents are organized for the > convenience of their maintainers rather than of their readers. But > sometimes I feel like I'm alone in that desire...:) > I am fine with separating user pointing from kernel API/driver developer guides, and I agree that it would make a lot of sense. As I said, please just make sure that kernel facing files don't end up in the wrong directory. 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Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] Convert hwmon documentation to ReST To: Jonathan Corbet References: <20190411124324.3ed62fad@lwn.net> <20190411174357.251904f5@coco.lan> <20190411210731.GA29378@roeck-us.net> <20190412100451.6fe49de7@lwn.net> From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <8514ff97-3167-3c89-3468-e247d14c5086@roeck-us.net> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:12:52 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190412100451.6fe49de7@lwn.net> Content-Language: en-US X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20190412_091258_101199_EE073E5E X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 17.12 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare , linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, Linux Doc Mailing List , Andrew Jeffery , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Sudeep Holla , Liviu Dudau , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Paul Mackerras , Joel Stanley , Michael Ellerman , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+infradead-linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On 4/12/19 9:04 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:07:31 -0700 > Guenter Roeck wrote: > >>> While nobody does such split, IMHO, the best would be to keep the >>> information outside Documentation/admin-guide. But hey! You're >>> the Doc maintainer. If you prefer to move, I'm perfectly fine >>> with that. >>> >> >> Same here, but please don't move the files which are kernel facing only. > > Well, let's step back and think about this. Who is the audience for > these documents? That will tell us a lot about where they should really > be. > Most of them are for users, some of them are for driver developers. A few are for both, though that is generally not the intention (and one may argue that driver internal documentation should be moved into the respective driver source). > What I would prefer to avoid is the status quo where *everything* is in > the top-level directory, and where documents are organized for the > convenience of their maintainers rather than of their readers. But > sometimes I feel like I'm alone in that desire...:) > I am fine with separating user pointing from kernel API/driver developer guides, and I agree that it would make a lot of sense. As I said, please just make sure that kernel facing files don't end up in the wrong directory. Thanks, Guenter _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel