linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib: Documentation: Synchronize %p formatting documentation

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Message-ID: <87si66qovw.fsf@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:	Tue, 22 Sep 2015 20:40:03 +0200
From:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@...hat.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: Documentation: Synchronize %p formatting documentation

On Mon, Sep 21 2015, Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 11:13 +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>
>> Move all pointer-formatting documentation to one place instead of
>> keeping it in three places with different level of completeness.

I've had a patch titled "vsnprintf: collect documentation in one place"
lying in a misc_printf branch for a while now, so I certainly like this.

> I think we still need at least one in the code. I, for example, often
> read it from the actual c-file, not from documentation.

I'd really prefer actually collecting it in that single place, under
Documentation/, but I guess eliminating one redundant copy is better
than nothing...

Rasmus
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