Wiki account on ata.wiki.kernel.org?

Wiki account on ata.wiki.kernel.org?

[Matthias Peter Walther]

Hello,

does someone know how to get an account on ata.wiki.kernel.org?

I signed up for a new account. But it seems that an administrator needs
to unlock it, which has never happened in my case (signed up 22th of
November).

I wanted to update this list
(https://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/SATA_hardware_features) with new
cards from this pdf
(https://www.marvell.com/storage/system-solutions/assets/Marvell-88SE92xx-002-product-brief.pdf),
which I own and tested.

Regards,
Matthias

Re: Wiki account on ata.wiki.kernel.org?

[Tejun Heo]

On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 02:54:42PM +0100, Matthias Peter Walther wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> does someone know how to get an account on ata.wiki.kernel.org?
> 
> I signed up for a new account. But it seems that an administrator needs
> to unlock it, which has never happened in my case (signed up 22th of
> November).

So, I think I still have the admin but the wiki hasn't been updated
for a long time and is really difficult to keep in sync.  I'm not sure
it's worthwhile to maintain it.  The right thing to do probably is
pulling in whatever relevant information to in-kernel documentation
and killing the wiki.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

Re: Wiki account on ata.wiki.kernel.org?

[Matthias Peter Walther]

Hello,

okay thanks, I guess you've been the one who unlocked my account today.
So you wouldn't spend the time to update that page?

Where is the in-kernel documentation? I'm rather new to this. Is this
within the kernel's git or where do I find it?

Regards,
Matthias

Am 04.12.2017 um 21:24 schrieb Tejun Heo:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 02:54:42PM +0100, Matthias Peter Walther wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> does someone know how to get an account on ata.wiki.kernel.org?
>>
>> I signed up for a new account. But it seems that an administrator needs
>> to unlock it, which has never happened in my case (signed up 22th of
>> November).
> So, I think I still have the admin but the wiki hasn't been updated
> for a long time and is really difficult to keep in sync.  I'm not sure
> it's worthwhile to maintain it.  The right thing to do probably is
> pulling in whatever relevant information to in-kernel documentation
> and killing the wiki.
>
> Thanks.
>

Re: Wiki account on ata.wiki.kernel.org?

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 09:36:46PM +0100, Matthias Peter Walther wrote:
> okay thanks, I guess you've been the one who unlocked my account today.
> So you wouldn't spend the time to update that page?

That wasn't me and no I wouldn't.

> Where is the in-kernel documentation? I'm rather new to this. Is this
> within the kernel's git or where do I find it?

There's driver-api/libata.rst in the source tree but it's also
horribly outdated.  If we want up-to-date hardware support
documentation, I think we'd have to move it into the source code and
generate it from there.  However, I'm not sure how useful it all
really is.  The wiki hasn't been updated for eons, most other
subsystems don't have the counterpart, and not much is really painful
because of that.

But, regardless of what we're gonna do in the long term, if someone is
interested in keeping it fresh, that is really great.  The other thing
is that libata development is pretty stale at this point, so maybe we
don't need a grand long term plan and just bringing the wiki
up-to-date is enough.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun