linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/14] docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book

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Message-ID: <20200522062607.143eb8d0@coco.lan>
Date:   Fri, 22 May 2020 06:26:07 +0200
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/14] docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the
 core-api book

Em Fri, 15 May 2020 12:00:16 -0600
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> escreveu:

> On Fri,  1 May 2020 17:37:50 +0200
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > There is an special chapter inside the core-api book about
> > some debug infrastructure like tracepoints and debug objects.
> > 
> > It sounded to me that this is the best place to add a chapter
> > explaining how to use a FireWire controller to do remote
> > kernel debugging, as explained on this document.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>  
> 
> I've applied this, but core-api really seems like the wrong place for
> this.  It would be good to rethink our layout a bit at some point in the
> near future...

Yeah, agreed. Debug functionality should likely deserve a separate
chapter outside core-api.

Now that we'll have all docs converted, it should be easier to view
the hole picture and re-design the doc organization.


Thanks,
Mauro