linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/2] Documentation/process: Add subsystem/tree handbook

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Message-ID: <20201217175837.GD23634@zn.tnic>
Date:   Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:58:37 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        john.stultz@...aro.org, acme@...hat.com, frederic@...nel.org,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>, daniel.lezcano@...aro.org,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] Documentation/process: Add subsystem/tree handbook

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 10:53:23AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Gee...a response from a two-year-old thread...

You know how we love to document stuff, right? :-)

> it's taking me a while to page all of that back in :)

Here's the gist of your concern:

https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181108074920.4c601ee3@lwn.net

> I'd love to see this work get in, I still feel bad about my part in
> stalling it before.

Why? It makes sense - you want the generic stuff which holds true for
the whole tree to be in generic docs. Read your example again and you'll
persuade yourself again. :-)

> Piecemeal could certainly work, or we could just try the whole thing and
> see what happens.  We got Thorsten's reporting-issues tome in without much
> trouble, after all, and that's bikeshed territory if anything is.  But
> whatever works is fine; send stuff and I'll gladly look at it.

Yeah, let's start slowly and small. We'll get there eventually... I
hope.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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