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=-7.3 required=3.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=unavailable 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 691CBC10F14 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A9A20850 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2019 21:07:36 +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="NwWIdpSg" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726832AbfDKVHf (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:07:35 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-f196.google.com ([209.85.215.196]:36401 "EHLO mail-pg1-f196.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726629AbfDKVHe (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:07:34 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-f196.google.com with SMTP id 85so4094442pgc.3; Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:07:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=8QoNjccgba2liRazhiXGtqN9gYFAnXX0AWzdPDl8NkQ=; b=NwWIdpSgYRaMTZTU9y+/4NO/PZdDflMH5TZPEoovewndnSXv5wWys54Yv27xbBieIE 0H5Jv5+eLbeJuiZ7J8oqVPneGeCPFudUnsSQontJdKa4nPMHpNjarTPzirb+rG2QXbo2 wOt5VeshQ2fFU/P32wnfYhu5ekPXKTJkppCVYDBebWW1ySafeFVWXY99rIq2Nv/Jd86G 7BXjb70htCT8tRke6nbOb6faHMZ8CqJcZkooUj4fSh0+ErHTwHH7t7lu/hv65siFEyUV 74RxRXd1glNl/mrGIAJ91+fAdSRxxPWjjrXq55wtIUWxKQg4ZohhC8uJcC0FiBVpkZXZ 6uAA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=8QoNjccgba2liRazhiXGtqN9gYFAnXX0AWzdPDl8NkQ=; b=KnTlMFATA159IobWxJyVib8WluKFcWFwwbO2Gbt9mLuh6jntoPtHSkjiyTHWYNYE6k vlR5uoePX345YvYKioTnXIhLCSLug5+P3SVI6Xv6ISQkGL/wYFSNfyPwbrti/pbDsg5L Vaz4Js3IDIbPujld8GqSIUZtrZYeDbB2oUnhblwO8oq6JKpfZCfWeKShTKenbEy+WEIa jClAwATCfws1EHPyiPovNF0v/rSvWJ1EvX1ljriPw8akWoJ1Bv8pkz7AijMXHhO/C8d1 5tdUsHjKy4iD7dDop3dE+m4+wSLgVq9sKow6gql0Ql5WELhe/W/SuCO9C437+jQHEQtY 5PHQ== X-Gm-Message-State: APjAAAXmfbFr3X50epqlDc5U98Dz7Ono738GmtU9hqUSDJ0B2rm2wnqR 5r8W1eXyHpcpVK8AKylJtvs= X-Google-Smtp-Source: APXvYqxu2TSmC4/JxGq7Qq4fzyWNHJUPxpDT+BVQpAKIQ8eBBRLGjWm8DqgaMIkYpmUCgWHaQrKP7g== X-Received: by 2002:a63:e845:: with SMTP id a5mr50493631pgk.246.1555016853736; Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:07:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([2600:1700:e321:62f0:329c:23ff:fee3:9d7c]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id p3sm56709579pfn.167.2019.04.11.14.07.31 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:07:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:07:31 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Jonathan Corbet , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] Convert hwmon documentation to ReST Message-ID: <20190411210731.GA29378@roeck-us.net> References: <20190411124324.3ed62fad@lwn.net> <20190411174357.251904f5@coco.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190411174357.251904f5@coco.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:43:57PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:43:24 -0600 > Jonathan Corbet escreveu: > > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:22:37 -0300 > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > > This series converts the contents of Documentation/hwmon to ReST > > > format. > > > > > > PS.: I opted to group the conversion files per groups of maintainer > > > set, as, if I were to generate one patch per file, it would give around > > > 160 patches. > > > > > > I also added those patches to my development tree at: > > > https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=hwmon > > > > > > If you want to see the results, they're at: > > > https://www.infradead.org/~mchehab/hwmon/ > > > > This set seems generally good and could probably be applied as-is. But I > > have to ask...is there a reason to not take the last step and actually > > bring this stuff into the Sphinx doc tree? > > > > We seem to be mostly documenting sysfs files and such. I am *guessing* > > that perhaps the set should move to Documentation/admin-guide/hwmon? Or > > have I misunderstood the intended audience here? > > :-) > > Yeah, I'd say that 80% of the contents there are user-faced. > > Yet, the main issue with this (and other driver subsystems) is that there's > a mix of userspace and Kernelspace stuff. One somewhat simple case is > the abituguru: it has a "datasheet" file: > > abituguru-datasheet > > This contains programming information for the corresponding drivers, > while abituguru and abituguru3 contains mostly userspace > stuff (still, it also contains the I2C address, with shouldn't mean > anything for the user). > > However, if you take a look at w83781d, you'll see a mix of both > userspace and driver developer info there... it has a chapter called > "Data sheet updates", for example, with is probably meaningless for > anyone but the hwmon driver developers. > > That's, btw, a pattern that happens a lot inside device driver > documents on almost all subsystems I checked: driver-specific > documentation is usually not split into user-facing/kernel-facing. > > 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. How do you want to handle this series ? Do you expect it to be pushed through hwmon, or through Documentation, or do you plan to push yourself ? If the series isn't pushed through hwmon, we'll likely have a couple of conflicts against hwmon-next. Thanks, Guenter