linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/5] Documentation: ABI: document /sys/devices/system/cpu/

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Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:13:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Alex Chiang <achiang@...com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] Documentation: ABI: document
 /sys/devices/system/cpu/

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Alex Chiang wrote:

> > Would it be possible for you to document all entities in 
> > /sys/devices/system/cpu/* in this new file (requiring a folding of 
> > Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-cache_disable into it)?
>  
> I'll give it a go. There are quite a few things in that directory
> though, like topology information, frequency, etc. that I wasn't
> so excited about documenting.
> 

Those are usually the ones where documentation is the most valuable and 
I'm sure would be greatly appreciated.

> But if that's the tax to create my new symlinks, I'll pay it. ;)
> 

It's definitely not required, I just thought it was a good opportunity to 
document all the contents under /sys/devices/system/cpu if you're going to 
do some of them.  It's up to you.
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