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

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Message-ID: <20200316154835.GA13004@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:48:35 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@....net>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        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 Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 10:06:50AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.

For the deletion:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>

Will