linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] documentation: core-api: rearrange a few kernel-api chapters and sections

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Date:   Fri, 27 Apr 2018 19:04:23 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: core-api: rearrange a few kernel-api
 chapters and sections

On 04/27/2018 04:17 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:11:02 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
>> Rearrange some kernel-api chapters and sections to group them
>> together better.
>>
>> - move Bit Operations from Basic C Library Functions to Basic
>>   Kernel Library Functions (now adjacent to Bitmap Operations since
>>   they are not typical C library functions)
>>
>> - move Sorting from Math Functions to Basic Kernel Library Functions
>>   since sort functions are more Basic than Math Functions
>>
>> - move Text Searching from Math Functions to Basic Kernel Library
>>   Functions (keep Sorting and Searching close to each other)
>>
>> - combine CRC and Math functions together into the (newly named)
>>   CRC and Math Functions chapter
> 
> The changes look good.  But ... grr... some of the stuff you are moving
> around was introduced in -rc2 via the networking tree.  That kind of thing
> makes life harder than it needs to be.  I've sorted it out and applied the
> patch, thanks.

Sorry, I thought that making the patch on linux-next 20180426 (which is based
on -rc2 and a few hundred git trees) would help with that.

Thanks for fixing.
-- 
~Randy