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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: mtk manpages <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16] sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 21:01:34 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <249593479.34550.1429736494057.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkh4boES3SK38KFKkC9WQZ_k_GuDns8tj_KqqWHPg-z6MQ@mail.gmail.com>

----- Original Message -----
> On 22 April 2015 at 21:43, Mathieu Desnoyers
> <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 11:06 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> >> > [ Not in this patch: tests (Pranith Kumar has a patch for this), man
> >> > page.
> >> > ]
> >>
> >> Actually, we had discussed that for new syscalls, the changelog _would_
> >> be the manpage -- at least included in it.
> >
> > Do you want the formatted content, or just the text ? Putting
> > manpage formatting in the changelog seems a bit odd.
> 
> 
> Plain text works for me. Just divide it up into the usuual man-pages
> sections (see man-pages(7), and I'll take care of the rest).

OK. Should I do the writeup as a man(2) from the POV of a glibc
user ? It's a bit different when we get to return values and
error codes if we document kernel<->glibc or glibc<->user.

Moreover, how can we get this into glibc ?

Thanks,

Mathieu

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-22 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-17 15:06 [PATCH v16] sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86) Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-04-21 11:47 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-04-22 20:36   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-04-21 16:29 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-04-22 19:43   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-04-22 20:01     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-04-22 21:01       ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2015-04-23 11:38         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-04-22 20:24 ` Pranith Kumar
2015-04-22 20:40   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-04-23  0:37     ` Pranith Kumar
2015-04-23  0:40       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-04-23  2:48         ` Steven Rostedt
2015-04-23 13:45           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2015-04-23 10:33 ` Rasmus Villemoes
2015-04-23 14:04   ` Mathieu Desnoyers

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