linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book

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Message-ID: <a22ed923-754a-b757-e0ca-87b6d6e6e8d2@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:44:50 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@...mhuis.info>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/7] docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into
 the core-api book

Hi--

On 9/22/22 13:41, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> These files describe part of the core API, but have never been converted to
> RST due to ... let's say local oppposition.  So, create a set of
> special-purpose wrappers to ..include these files into a separate page so
> that they can be a part of the htmldocs build.  Then link them into the
> core-api manual and remove them from the "staging" dumping ground.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> ---
>  Documentation/core-api/index.rst              |  3 ++
>  .../core-api/wrappers/atomic_bitops.rst       | 18 ++++++++
>  Documentation/core-api/wrappers/atomic_t.rst  | 19 +++++++++
>  .../core-api/wrappers/memory-barriers.rst     | 18 ++++++++
>  Documentation/staging/index.rst               | 42 -------------------
>  5 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 42 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/wrappers/atomic_bitops.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/wrappers/atomic_t.rst
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/core-api/wrappers/memory-barriers.rst


When I look at https://static.lwn.net/kerneldoc/,
I want to move these 3 from "Other documentation":
Atomic Types
Atomic bitops
Memory Barriers

to "Internal API Manuals", then I saw this patch...
Maybe I am misunderstanding. Is this patch supposed to move those 3 items
from Other or not?

thanks.
-- 
~Randy