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

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Date:   Fri, 27 Apr 2018 06:21:16 -0700
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     "linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: core-api: rearrange a few kernel-api
 chapters and sections

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 06:11:02PM -0700, Randy Dunlap 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
> 
> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

This all makes sense to me.

Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@...rosoft.com>