linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: better locations for sysfs-pci, sysfs-tagging

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Message-ID: <20201009093336.0d1385cd@lwn.net>
Date:   Fri, 9 Oct 2020 09:33:36 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
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 v2] Documentation: better locations for sysfs-pci,
 sysfs-tagging

On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 00:01:28 -0700
John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com> wrote:

> sysfs-pci and sysfs-tagging were mis-filed: their locations within
> 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 to PCI, and move sysfs-tagging to networking. (Thanks to
> Jonathan Corbet for coming up with the final locations.)
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>

Applied, thanks.

jon