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

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Message-ID: <1442998351.8361.162.camel@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:52:31 +0300
From:	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
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 Tue, 2015-09-22 at 20:40 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> 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...

Agree.

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy
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