linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs, nvme: add a feature and quirk policy document

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Message-ID: <87mt7g27lv.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 21 Dec 2022 06:45:32 -0700
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, axboe@...a.com, sagi@...mberg.me,
        kbusch@...nel.org, linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs, nvme: add a feature and quirk policy document

Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 02:26:22PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 06:08:44AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> > The document looks fine, but I do wonder if it wouldn't be better placed
>> > with the other maintainer entries in Documentation/maintainer?
>> 
>> Hmm, nothing in there looks very similar to me, while process
>> seems to have real policy documents.  But we can live with either
>> place.
>
> Any strong arguments for moving it Documentation/maintainer?
>
> I'd like to merge this with the fixups from Randy through the nvme
> tree ASAP, and need to decide on the location.

Sorry, the argument is that the subsystem profiles there were created
for the very purpose of documenting subsystem-specific patch policies
like those found in your document.  The hope is that, someday, people
will be able to go to one place to learn what special hoops any given
subsystem will make them jump through.

This isn't something I'm going to dig in my heels on, though.  But at a
minimum, could you add an entry to
Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst ?

Thanks,

jon