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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: [ndctl PATCH 1/2] ndctl/region: Support ndctl_region_{get, set}_align()
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:52:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x49y2sp3tka.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4izzfzrb2r7Mc7FfryGnBcn1bOUA8a6_L9t2fKR4caoXw@mail.gmail.com> (Dan Williams's message of "Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:23:47 -0800")

Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes:

>> Missing doctext.  Specifically, there should be a big, fat warning
>> against changing the region alignment.
>
> I don't mind adding one, but is this the right place to document an
> API warning? If the audience is future ndctl developers that should be
> warned to keep the status quo of not plumbing this capability into
> "create-namespace" that's one message. If it's to stop other libndctl
> application developers, they'll likely never see this source file.

I meant to target users of the library (not ndctl developers).  I
thought that was the reason for the doctext on exported interfaces.  No?

I admit, I don't know how users of libndctl figure *anything* out about
how to use it.  :)

-Jeff
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-26 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-30 22:42 [ndctl PATCH 0/2] ndctl: Cross-arch compatible namespace alignment Dan Williams
2020-01-30 22:42 ` [ndctl PATCH 1/2] ndctl/region: Support ndctl_region_{get, set}_align() Dan Williams
2020-02-19 18:03   ` Jeff Moyer
2020-02-25 23:23     ` Dan Williams
2020-02-26 17:49       ` Dan Williams
2020-02-26 21:52       ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2020-02-26 22:20         ` Dan Williams
2020-02-26 22:44           ` Jeff Moyer
2020-01-30 22:42 ` [ndctl PATCH 2/2] ndctl/namespace: Improve namespace action failure messages Dan Williams

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