linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] fs: allow statmount to fetch the subtype and devname

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Message-ID: <20241112-muskel-furios-7a25e5794b0c@brauner>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:12:00 +0100
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>, 
	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>, Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>, 
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] fs: allow statmount to fetch the subtype and
 devname

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:24:45AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 at 10:42, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 11, 2024 at 08:42:26AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > > It's error-prone and a pain to roll these yourself, and that would make
> >
> > As with most system calls.
> 
> Also couldn't the kernel tree have a man2 directory, where all the
> syscall man pages could be maintained?   I think it would very much
> make sense to update the man page together with the kernel API change.

I keep saying that over and over as well. IMHO, we should integrate the
system call manpages into the kernel tree. So fully agreed.