linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the kernel

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Message-ID: <20171006090306.6a8ba234@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 6 Oct 2017 09:03:06 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the
 kernel

On Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:10:38 +0200
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Way back in 2008 we didn't have "robust" in-kernel documentation system,
> so the idea of putting something like the kernel driver statement in the
> kernel tree wasn't even imagined.  But now that has changed, so add the
> old document to the kernel source itself to allow for us to properly
> reference it in one canonical place (as the LF wiki keeps moving things
> around.)
> 
> This also will allow people to add their names to it, as I seem to have
> lost the ability to do that by not knowing how to edit things on the
> original document.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
> 
> Jon, if this isn't the correct place to put the document, I'd be glad to
> move it elsewhere, I just picked the first place that it seemed to fit
> into.

It seems like the perfect place to me, I went ahead and applied it.

Thanks,

jon