linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: Make CodingStyle and SubmittingPatches symlinks

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:45:11 +0200
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: Make CodingStyle and SubmittingPatches symlinks

On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 10:54 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> > Make these files symlinks to the .rst equivalents
>> 
>> If we're going to do this (and I really don't mind either way), then
>> please add
>> 
>> Fixes: 08a9a8d44c1c ("doc: re-add CodingStyle and SubmittingPatches")

With this I'm merely saying that wherever 08a9a8d44c1c ends up, this
patch should end up too (if we want symlinks that is). There's enough
confusion with the renames already, I'd like to ensure that v4.10
doesn't end up having one thing, and the future another.

BR,
Jani.

>
> I don't believe this patch "fixes" the other, it just makes it
> possible to continue to write "Read Documentation/CodingStyle"
> or "Read Documentation/SubmittingPatches" to people that
> submit poorly formatted or improper patches.
>
> I attempted to do that a bit ago but then had to write out the
> Documentation/process/<foo>.rst equivalents instead.
>

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center