From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BCA6C282CE for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A66E218AF for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 16:12:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=fail reason="signature verification failed" (2048-bit key) header.d=gmail.com header.i=@gmail.com header.b="VY/6cV7j" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726785AbfDLQM5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:12:57 -0400 Received: from mail-pf1-f195.google.com ([209.85.210.195]:42804 "EHLO mail-pf1-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726624AbfDLQM4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:12:56 -0400 Received: by mail-pf1-f195.google.com with SMTP id w25so5362510pfi.9; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:12:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2j8BUcng0BwJmxMELQ9fVczmlAT/WBCK6nxFe8uX3w4=; b=VY/6cV7jFXJN+VI5kQu6aV/UCQZSuHhpb1UjdxNg/19uFHouW3/2HKjdLP/YC/Zdfn YFWXi4yQh4PxSXpjESu6wOJnT35Q6mGwwVKk5LvB6G0A1YokNZS9r0fLlKMwsv9OGblS olQZZWt2JhcWvuktRIHWCeql/J93l5RAAB/eRi4Pf2tOIu0TZGjTeGTnh/1UboeCu8+Y WxFCLCmReITPgXQm7bmobYDjHLcLq6lZw4rew+2q7mzwEO+otZhdeH+IFM4CSTvhS8gu pda6lSymDtbwxDV8Zw24AFcVgTJTlrTnOBZTDuEkM8jpY2AXcwCuGzf0bRS0SNsUswFG NMHA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=2j8BUcng0BwJmxMELQ9fVczmlAT/WBCK6nxFe8uX3w4=; b=JRszre10l17ta84wYl/6wTrF0lcLl6dKQJHwTdiEpsCQBCO1mtaQRzpH5ijBXCWyYI 6yqSoGOQReoh+16w1A211UCOQvPerZgjoexV8M4/94fXoiJh51zIR+rhfudv/NJIBnSd +ZSA3wVq39z8nuqY2NqDSmtVT4sjR53vSj64JR1P/r4bPrj5VmlsW1EXZlPtZD9nyADM qJhzIBzwGTJ+6djDABEHoYHFiZVa0TeeXgNc5pEyEVPcEO7Vb7h7FDbi0mmBOkde3nHd 0s/cnZ3xTOv/M1Eqiegk7DXCtGgre4RKvshqekHFDOwCoW9U/GjY1xRLRISo2adMMia4 11ow== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAW2jigVLKNCA8MJWWJkZMGCQzdNaaabJRQdbOXSflRJlvDe15rp Qtfp1gkY+qyyobpeGzWbrA3uzku7 X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqzlgQhXj11v8hPpOVHEl0vgqSzx0/7UQt1zJcBa3dDhwLJ+RJGk8OJeGm5efqOOlmZjVXglnQ== X-Received: by 2002:a63:7c45:: with SMTP id l5mr54506453pgn.303.1555085575990; Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:12:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.roeck-us.net ([2600:1700:e321:62f0:329c:23ff:fee3:9d7c]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b7sm123353710pfj.67.2019.04.12.09.12.52 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 12 Apr 2019 09:12:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] Convert hwmon documentation to ReST To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Linux Doc Mailing List , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Jeffery , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jean Delvare , Joel Stanley , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-aspeed@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Liviu Dudau , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Michael Ellerman , Paul Mackerras , Sudeep Holla 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-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-hwmon-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.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