linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ELF: document some de-facto PT

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Message-ID: <87edp7jyu4.fsf@meer.lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:40:03 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ELF: document some de-facto PT_* ABI quirks

Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com> writes:

> Turns out rules about PT_INTERP, PT_GNU_STACK and PT_GNU_PROPERTY
> program headers are slightly different.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
> ---
>
> 	v2: integrate into documentation build system
>
>  Documentation/ELF/ELF.rst   |   32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  Documentation/ELF/index.rst |   10 ++++++++++
>  Documentation/index.rst     |    1 +
>  3 files changed, 43 insertions(+)

I really don't want to add another top-level directory for a single
short file ... I'm trying to have fewer of those directories, not more.

This is essentially use-space ABI information; I think you should really
just drop a file into Documentation/userspace-api/.

Thanks,

jon