linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v1 03/25] printk-rb: define ring buffer struct and initializer

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:46:27 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Daniel Wang <wonderfly@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alan Cox <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Peter Feiner <pfeiner@...gle.com>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 03/25] printk-rb: define ring buffer struct and
 initializer

On Tue 2019-02-12 15:46:40, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 03:29:41PM +0100, John Ogness wrote:
> > See Documentation/printk-ringbuffer.txt for details about the
> > initializer arguments.
> 
> You can put that documentation here in the .h file and have it pulled
> out automatically into the documentation files when they are created.
> That way you always keep everything in sync properly.

Yes, please, move the documentation into the sources.

It is so easy to get the info via editor+cscope support
than via an external text file that many people do not
know about ;-)

For example, see include/linux/livepatch.h for inspiration.

Best Regards,
Petr