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Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:43:58 +0200
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-man@...r.kernel.org, 
	André Almeida <andrealmeid@...lia.com>, Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>, 
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>, 
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] man/man7/sched.7: Update the documentation
 references

Hi Sebastian,

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 04:13:03PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The section refers to .txt files but they have been moved/ renamed to
> .rst some time ago. The mentioned sched-rt-group is inconvenient as
> people always complained about CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED.
> Everything that describes CFS is not wrong but the kernel the kernel
> switched to the Earliest Virtual Deadline First (EEVDF) scheduler.
> 
> Instead of updating the file links below (and adding new ones), replace
> them with a link to the automatically created scheduler documetation
> from that folder. This also has some EEVDF bits :)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>

Thanks!  I've applied the patch, with the following amendment:

	diff --git i/man/man7/sched.7 w/man/man7/sched.7
	index 6efdd90c5..8d37db321 100644
	--- i/man/man7/sched.7
	+++ w/man/man7/sched.7
	@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@ .SH SEE ALSO
	 .P
	 .UR https://docs.kernel.org/\:scheduler
	 The Linux kernel documentation for the scheduler
	-.UE
	+.UE .
	 .P
	 Worth looking at:
	 .UR https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/\:realtime/\:start


Cheers,
Alex

> ---
>  man/man7/sched.7 | 9 +++------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man7/sched.7 b/man/man7/sched.7
> index db7753c9e912c..935ff1fb82db5 100644
> --- a/man/man7/sched.7
> +++ b/man/man7/sched.7
> @@ -1048,12 +1048,9 @@ was not possible up to Linux 2.6.17.
>  .I Programming for the real world \- POSIX.4
>  by Bill O.\& Gallmeister, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., ISBN 1-56592-074-0.
>  .P
> -The Linux kernel source files
> -.IR \%Documentation/\:scheduler/\:sched\-deadline\:.txt ,
> -.IR \%Documentation/\:scheduler/\:sched\-rt\-group\:.txt ,
> -.IR \%Documentation/\:scheduler/\:sched\-design\-CFS\:.txt ,
> -and
> -.I \%Documentation/\:scheduler/\:sched\-nice\-design\:.txt
> +.UR https://docs.kernel.org/\:scheduler
> +The Linux kernel documentation for the scheduler
> +.UE
>  .P
>  Worth looking at:
>  .UR https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/\:realtime/\:start
> -- 
> 2.51.0
> 

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