linux-kernel - Re: [patch] docs, debugfs: start explicit debugfs documentation

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Message-ID: <20180710052835.581cdf28@lwn.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jul 2018 05:28:35 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] docs, debugfs: start explicit debugfs documentation

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 08:45:06 +0200
Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

> For the "this is what a specific debugfs file contains", those should go
> into Documenation/ABI/ if you really want to document those types of
> things.

Do we really want to start populating Documentation/ABI with stuff that's
explicitly *not* ABI?  Keeping it separate might make more sense, IMO.
I'd put extfrag_index with the MM docs, for example.

> But as it is, this single patch does too many different things all at
> once.

...and yet not enough :)  This stuff is almost in RST already, it would
be nice to go all the way and integrate it into the rest of our docs.

Thanks,

jon