From: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux-Next Mailing List <linux-next@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
mingo@kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the jc_docs tree
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 18:53:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180509165249.GA16976@andrea> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180509085920.5fbb32f5@lwn.net>
On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:59:20AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 9 May 2018 15:28:24 +0200
> Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
>
> > > BTW, it would be nice if the the question "Why was this file removed?" was
> > > answered by that jc_docs commit message ... I actually wonder if this
> > > file needs to return (I have no way of knowing).
> >
> > My bad; thanks for pointing this out.
> >
> > Mmh... "why" would have been something like "the feature has no Kconfig". ;-)
> >
> > I defer to your (community) decision regarding "if this file needs to return"
> > (Cc-ing Ingo, who created the file and also suggested its removal); I remain
> > available for preparing the patch to restore (and refresh) this file, should
> > you agree with this approach.
>
> So I'll confess that I balked on the lack of a changelog, but then decided
> to proceed with the patch (and the other removal as well) due to the lack
> of the Kconfig option.
>
> Now that I look a little closer, I think the real issue is that the
> "features" documentation assumes that there's a Kconfig option for each,
> but there isn't in this case. The lack of a Kconfig option does not,
> this time around, imply that the feature has gone away.
>
> I think that I should probably revert this patch in the short term.
> Longer-term, it would be good to have an alternative syntax for "variable
> set in the arch headers" to describe situations like this.
Both matters were discussed during v1:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522774551-9503-1-git-send-email-andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com
... (and the glory details are documented in features-refresh.sh ;-) ).
As I suggested above, simply reverting this patch will leave this file,
(and only this file!) out-of-date (and won't resolve the conflict with
Laurent's patch ...).
Andrea
>
> Make sense?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-09 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-09 10:25 linux-next: manual merge of the akpm-current tree with the jc_docs tree Stephen Rothwell
2018-05-09 13:28 ` Andrea Parri
2018-05-09 13:30 ` Andrea Parri
2018-05-09 14:59 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-05-09 16:53 ` Andrea Parri [this message]
2018-05-09 17:11 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-05-09 17:35 ` Andrea Parri
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2015-12-31 17:47 ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
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