linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 02/24] tools: docs: memory-model: fix references for some files

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Date:   Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:57:20 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Daniel Lustig <dlustig@...dia.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jade Alglave <j.alglave@....ac.uk>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@...ia.fr>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/24] tools: docs: memory-model: fix references for
 some files

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 06:58:40PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:38:36PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:33:54AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 02:14:29PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > > - The sysfs.txt file was converted to ReST and renamed;
> > > > - The control-dependencies.txt is not at
> > > >   Documentation/control-dependencies.txt. As it is at the
> > > >   same dir as the README file, which mentions it, just
> > > >   remove Documentation/.
> > > > 
> > > > With that, ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check script
> > > > is now happy again for files under tools/.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
> > > 
> > > Queued for review and testing, likely target v5.11.
> > 
> > Instead of changing the path in the README reference, shouldn't 
> > tools/memory-model/control-dependencies.txt be moved to its proper 
> > position in .../Documentation?
> 
> You are of course quite right.  My thought is to let Mauro go ahead,
> given his short deadline.  We can then make this "git mv" change once
> v5.10-rc1 comes out, given that it should have Mauro's patches.  I have
> added a reminder to my calendar.

Except that I cannot find a commit where control-dependencies.txt is
in tools/memory-model.  And this file is not yet in mainline, but
only in -rcu and -next.  In both places, it is here:

	tools/memory-model/Documentation/control-dependencies.txt

Mauro, to what commit in what tree are you applying this patch?

							Thanx, Paul