linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: sysrq: Remove contradicting sentence on extra /proc/sysrq-trigger characters

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Message-ID: <aPDNJ3f1H_65infk@archie.me>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:47:03 +0700
From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To: Tomas Mudrunka <tomas.mudrunka@...il.com>, corbet@....net
Cc: cengiz@...nel.wtf, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, jirislaby@...nel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, mail@...elmschueler.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: sysrq: Remove contradicting sentence on
 extra /proc/sysrq-trigger characters

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 12:17:58PM +0200, Tomas Mudrunka wrote:
> Hi. I am author of that sentence and this is NACK from me.

Oops, I didn't see your review when I send v2 [1].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/20251016103609.33897-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com/

> 
> > I'm not sure this is right - there is a warning here that additional
> > characters may acquire a meaning in the future, so one should not
> > develop the habit of writing them now.
> 
> As you've said... I don't see anything confusing about that.
> The warning was added for a reason, because there was discussion
> about some people writing extra characters in there, which might
> cause issues down the line if we refactor the code in future.

Any pointers to these discussions? Or do you have any idea on better
description on /proc/sysrq-trigger itself?

Confused...

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