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

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Message-ID: <20161018141626.kupikyk6fcefvc2l@thunk.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 Oct 2016 10:16:26 -0400
From:   Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@...marit.de>,
        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: Re: Renaming Documentation/ [was  [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's
 manual and improve development-process book]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 07:37:34AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 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...:)

In the meantime, simply dropping in a symlink is a convenient shortcut
for individual developers (for example, I have a symlink at the
top-level from patches to .git/patches/origin to make accessing my
guilt patch stack more convenient).

					- Ted