linux-kernel - Re: [-mm][PATCH 4/4] Add rlimit controller documentation

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Message-ID: <48200FDF.7070408@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 06 May 2008 13:29:27 +0530
From:	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	linux-mm@...ck.org, skumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	yamamoto@...inux.co.jp, menage@...gle.com, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rientjes@...gle.com,
	xemul@...nvz.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com
Subject: Re: [-mm][PATCH 4/4] Add rlimit controller documentation

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 11:09:52 +0530 Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Ho hum, I had to do rather a lot of guesswork here to try to understand
>>> your proposed overall design for this feature.  I'd prefer to hear about
>>> your design via more direct means.
>> Do you have any suggestions on how to do that better. Would you like
>> documentation to be the first patch in the series? I had sent out two RFC's
>> earlier and got comments and feedback from several people.
>>
> 
> I do like to see the overall what-i-am-setting-out-to-do description in
> there somewhere - sometimes a Docuemtation/ file is appropriate, other
> times do it via changelog.
> 

I think having documentation upfront does make sense in that case. I'll also try
and make the changelogs more verbose. I usually try to point to the previous
discussions in the introduction patch.

> But the first part of the review is reviewing whatever it is which you set
> out to achieve.  Once that's understood and sounds like a good idea then we
> can start looking at how you did it.
> 
> 

Yes, I agree.

-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL
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