linux-kernel - Renaming Documentation/ [was [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book]

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Message-ID: <20161018073734.5c4d9d0a@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 07:37:34 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Renaming Documentation/ [was  [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual
 and improve development-process book]

On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:30:48 +0200
Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de> wrote:

> One Silly request of mine:
> 
> Is there a chance moving "./Documentation" to something shorter
> like "./doc"? Even with "Text completion" (in Emacs [1]), IMO 
> "Documentation" is to long.

I'd be entirely in favor of that.  It would require some pretty
widespread and high-level buy-in, though, including from the device-tree
folks.  That truly is something to raise at the kernel summit; if Linus
incinerates me, we'll know it's not going to happen...:)

jon