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=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no 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 7F8DFC73C66 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:21:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62D982063F for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:21:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728412AbfGNPVJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jul 2019 11:21:09 -0400 Received: from out4437.biz.mail.alibaba.com ([47.88.44.37]:40350 "EHLO out4437.biz.mail.alibaba.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726403AbfGNPVJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Jul 2019 11:21:09 -0400 X-Alimail-AntiSpam: AC=PASS;BC=-1|-1;BR=01201311R101e4;CH=green;DM=||false|;FP=0|-1|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1;HT=e01e04423;MF=alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com;NM=1;PH=DS;RN=17;SR=0;TI=SMTPD_---0TWrpoRa_1563117663; Received: from IT-FVFX43SYHV2H.lan(mailfrom:alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com fp:SMTPD_---0TWrpoRa_1563117663) by smtp.aliyun-inc.com(127.0.0.1); Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:21:03 +0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Documentation: move architectures together To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org References: <20190712022018.27989-1-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> <20190712113427.62fa7ffc@lwn.net> From: Alex Shi Message-ID: <36c522c5-975e-e38e-daad-0f3d9f93b186@linux.alibaba.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 23:21:03 +0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190712113427.62fa7ffc@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gbk Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Jon, Thanks for quick response! ÔÚ 2019/7/13 ÉÏÎç1:34, Jonathan Corbet дµÀ: > On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:20:07 +0800 > Alex Shi wrote: > >> There are many different archs in Documentation/ dir, it's better to >> move them together in 'Documentation/arch' which follows from kernel source. > > So this seems certain to collide badly with Mauro's RST-conversion monster > patch set. I don't mean that, sorry, and we can figure out if both of them are worthy to be picked up. > > More to the point, though...if we are going to thrash up things this > badly, we want to be sure that we're doing it right so we don't end up > renaming everything again. Grouping stuff into a new arch/ subdirectory > adds a bit of order, but it doesn't do much toward trying to organize our > documentation for its readers, and it doesn't help us to modernize the > docs and get rid of the old, useless stuff. A quick check shows that many > of these files have seen no changes other than typo fixes since the > beginning of the Git era. Right, there is some docs which need to be update or even drop, and a reorder would be a timing to push each of arch maintainer to do something, isn't it? Anyway, reordering documents like kernel source dir could be one of choices. :) > > So, in my mind, this needs some thought. Maybe we want a > Documentation/arch in the end, but I'm not convinced that we should just > create it and fill it with a snow shovel. This might be a good thing to > discuss at the kernel summit in September. Thanks for considering, anyway, it could be a good start to get hands dirty whether the arch dir is needed. Thanks Alex