linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/34] docs: filesystems: rename path-lookup.txt file

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Date:   Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:00:06 -0700
From:   Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/34] docs: filesystems: rename path-lookup.txt file

On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 04:32:35PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> There are two files called "patch-lookup", with different contents:
> one is a ReST file, the other one is the text.
> 
> As we'll be finishing the conversion of filesystem documents,
> let's fist rename the text one, in order to avoid messing with
> the existing ReST file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
> ---
>  .../filesystems/{path-lookup.txt => path-walking.txt}       | 0
>  Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst                       | 2 +-
>  fs/dcache.c                                                 | 6 +++---
>  fs/namei.c                                                  | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>  rename Documentation/filesystems/{path-lookup.txt => path-walking.txt} (100%)

Wouldn't it make more sense to consolidate path-lookup.rst and path-lookup.txt
into one file?  The .txt one is less detailed and hasn't been updated since
2011, so maybe it should just be deleted?  Perhaps there's something useful in
it that should be salvaged, though.

- Eric