linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] docs: a few improvements for atomic

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Date:   Mon, 9 Mar 2020 10:06:50 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>
Cc:     linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] docs: a few improvements for atomic_ops.rst

On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 08:56:15PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a short series of unrelated fixes that make the atomic
> operations documentation look and read a bit better.
> 
> Jonathan Neuschäfer (3):
>   docs: atomic_ops: Remove colons where they don't make sense
>   docs: atomic_ops: Move two paragraphs into the warning block above
>   docs: atomic_ops: Steer readers towards using refcount_t for reference
>     counts
> 
>  Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst         | 24 ++++++++++++-------

FWIW, I consider this a dead document. I've written
Documentation/atomic_t.txt and Documentation/atomic_bitops.txt as a
replacement. If there is anything in atomic_ops you feel is missing from
those two, please tell as I'm planing to delete atomic_ops soon.