linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt

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Date:   Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:10:32 +0200
From:   Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, rkrcmar@...hat.com,
        jdike@...toit.com, richard@....at, anton.ivanov@...bridgegreys.com,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-um@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to
 Documentation/virt

On 24/07/19 20:00, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>  - kvm/api.txt pretty clearly belongs in the userspace-api book, rather
>    than tossed in with:
> 
>  - kvm/review-checklist.txt, which belongs in the subsystem guide, if only
>    we'd gotten around to creating it yet, or
> 
>  - kvm/mmu.txt, which is information for kernel developers, or
> 
>  - uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt, which belongs in the admin guide.
> 
> I suspect that organization is going to be one of the main issues to talk
> about in Lisbon.  Meanwhile, I hope that this rename won't preclude
> organizational work in the future.

Absolutely not, this rename was just about a badly-named directory.  I
totally agree with the above reorganization.  Does the userspace API
cover only syscall or perhaps sysfs interfaces?   There are more API
files (amd-memory-encryption.txt, cpuid.txt, halt-polling.txt msr.txt,
ppc-pv.txt, s390-diag.txt) but, with the exception of
amd-memory-encryption.txt and halt-polling.txt, they cover the
emulated-hardware interfaces that KVM provides to virtual machines.

Paolo