linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: Add guides section for debugging

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Message-ID: <c8b67896-b1d1-45fd-aab4-6ff8ce64a1e6@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2024 13:23:49 -0800
From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@...labora.com>
Cc: bagasdotme@...il.com, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
 laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com, hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl,
 mauro.chehab@...ux.intel.com, kernel@...labora.com,
 bob.beckett@...labora.com, nicolas.dufresne@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] docs: Add guides section for debugging

Hi,

On 11/7/24 12:35 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@...labora.com> writes:
> 
>> This idea was formed after noticing that new developers experience
>> certain difficulty to navigate within the multitude of different
>> debugging options in the Kernel and while there often is good
>> documentation for the tools, the developer has to know first that they
>> exist and where to find them.
>> Add a general debugging section to the Kernel documentation, as an
>> easily locatable entry point to other documentation and as a general
>> guideline for the topic.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@...labora.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/index.rst                            |   2 +
>>  .../driver_development_debugging_guide.rst         | 206 +++++++++++++++
>>  Documentation/process/debugging/general_advice.rst |  48 ++++
>>  Documentation/process/debugging/index.rst          |  21 ++
>>  .../debugging/userspace_debugging_guide.rst        | 278 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>  5 files changed, 555 insertions(+)
>>

You two have probably already gone over this, but I would not go
looking into Documentation/process/ at all for debugging advice.

IOW, I think that these docs belong somewhere else.


-- 
~Randy