linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: filesystems: better locations for sysfs-pci, sysfs-tagging

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Message-ID: <d91a1088-641c-07e1-4065-bbd8ad79332c@nvidia.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Oct 2020 12:28:21 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
CC:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: filesystems: better locations for
 sysfs-pci, sysfs-tagging

On 10/8/20 9:04 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 16:31:51 -0700
> John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com> wrote:
> 
>> sysfs-pci and sysfs-tagging were mis-filed: their locations with
>> Documentation/ implied that they were related to file systems. Actually,
>> each topic is about a very specific *use* of sysfs, and sysfs *happens*
>> to be a (virtual) filesystem, so this is not really the right place.
>>
>> It's jarring to be reading about filesystems in general and then come
>> across these specific details about PCI, and tagging...and then back to
>> general filesystems again.
>>
>> Move sysfs-pci and sysfs-tagging to a location under the sysfs topic.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
> 
> I see why you want to do this, but I have to wonder if moving them out of
> Documentation/filesystems entirely might not be a better approach.
> sysfs-pci.rst might better belong in the admin guide or under PCI/, while
> sysfs-tagging.rst could go under networking/.
> 
> Make sense?
> 

Absolutely, I'll post a v2 that does it that way.

thanks,
-- 
John Hubbard
NVIDIA