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

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Message-ID: <20200421183852.133b3a09@coco.lan>
Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:38:52 +0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...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

Em Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:00:06 -0700
Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org> escreveu:

> 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.

I'll keep this (and the next patch) on a separate branch. I'll try to take
a look on it later and see if I can help checking if there are something
there still useful, merging at path-lookup.rst.

Thanks,
Mauro