netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: networking: document NAPI

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Message-ID: <20230316120334.GA648750@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:03:34 +0100
From:   Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
        pabeni@...hat.com, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
        anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com, corbet@....net,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] docs: networking: document NAPI

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> :
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 18:38:46 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 15:30:44 -0700
> > Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
[...]
> > Older pre LF wiki NAPI docs still survive here
> > https://lwn.net/2002/0321/a/napi-howto.php3
> 
> Wow, it's over 20 years old and still largely relevant!
> Makes me feel that we stopped innovating :)
> 
> Why were all the docs hosted out of tree back then?

This is not completely true.

Dave Jones's full-history-linux.git.tar shows that
Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt with the same content was included by
davem on 2002/03/13.

It was possible to do quite some work with the then in-tree kernel doc
(napi, locking, dma).

-- 
Ueimor