linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] Convert hwmon documentation to ReST

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Message-ID: <20190416225836.1d5953bc@coco.lan>
Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:58:36 -0300
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@....com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] Convert hwmon documentation to ReST

Em Tue, 16 Apr 2019 13:31:14 -0700
Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> escreveu:

> On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 02:19:49PM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 20:09:16 -0700
> > Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net> wrote:
> >   
> > > The big real-world question is: Is the series good enough for you to accept,
> > > or do you expect some level of user/kernel separation ?  
> > 
> > I guess it can go in; it's forward progress, even if it doesn't make the
> > improvements I would like to see.
> > 
> > The real question, I guess, is who should take it.  I've been seeing a
> > fair amount of activity on hwmon, so I suspect that the potential for
> > conflicts is real.  Perhaps things would go smoother if it went through
> > your tree?
> >   
> We'll see a number of conflicts, yes. In terms of timing, this is probably
> the worst release in the last few years to make such a change. I currently
> have 9 patches queued in hwmon-next which touch Documentation/hwmon.
> Of course the changes made in those are all not ReST compatible, and I have
> no idea what to look out for to make it compatible. So this is going to be
> fun (in a negative sense) either way.
> 
> I don't really have a recommendation at this point; I think the best I could
> do to take the patches which don't generate conflicts and leave the rest
> alone. But that would also be bad, since the new index file would not match
> reality. No idea, really, what the best or even a useful approach would be.
> 
> Maybe automated changes like this (assuming they are indeed automated)
> can be generated and pushed right after a commit window closes. Would
> that by any chance be possible ?

No, those patches are hand-maid, but I can surely rebase it on the top of
your tree. Is your tree already merged at linux-next, or should I use some
other branch/tree for rebase?

Thanks,
Mauro