linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] documentation: core-api: rearrange a few kernel-api chapters and sections

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Message-ID: <20180427171712.4e09233a@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 27 Apr 2018 17:17:12 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: core-api: rearrange a few kernel-api
 chapters and sections

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:11:02 -0700
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org> wrote:

> Rearrange some kernel-api chapters and sections to group them
> together better.
> 
> - move Bit Operations from Basic C Library Functions to Basic
>   Kernel Library Functions (now adjacent to Bitmap Operations since
>   they are not typical C library functions)
> 
> - move Sorting from Math Functions to Basic Kernel Library Functions
>   since sort functions are more Basic than Math Functions
> 
> - move Text Searching from Math Functions to Basic Kernel Library
>   Functions (keep Sorting and Searching close to each other)
> 
> - combine CRC and Math functions together into the (newly named)
>   CRC and Math Functions chapter

The changes look good.  But ... grr... some of the stuff you are moving
around was introduced in -rc2 via the networking tree.  That kind of thing
makes life harder than it needs to be.  I've sorted it out and applied the
patch, thanks.

jon