linux-kernel - Re: [2.6 patch] move edac.txt DOCUMENTATION two levels up

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Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:14:00 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Doug Thompson <norsk5@...oo.com>
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, dougthompson@...ssion.com,
	bluesmoke-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] move edac.txt DOCUMENTATION two levels up

On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:52:01AM -0800, Doug Thompson wrote:
> Interesting
> 
> At the time I submitted it there was a big discussion on just how messed up the documentation
> directory was, inconsistent and not well laid out. Then more discussion on how it could be laid
> out in relation to where various subsystem were laid out (ie drivers doc directory like there was
> a drivers src directory and the like).
> 
> Therefore I placed it following that pattern.
> 
> So what I am hearing is that documentation for a subsystem should just continue to be dumped into
> one directory with everything else.
> 
> Okay, if that is the goal, I am fine with, but things are pretty jumbled up in there. I will know
> where it is at least.

The current status quo is that everything is in one directory.

If someone wants to put more structure into Documentation/ that would be 
fine with me, but edac.txt being the only file under 
Documentation/drivers/ doesn't make sense and only makes it harder to 
find this file.

> doug t

cu
Adrian

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