From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Sunny Patel <nueralspacetech@gmail.com>
Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@linux-watchdog.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: Refactored watchdog old doc
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:45:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ik9y229e.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fe3de980-e918-47ae-862a-969a5b117ae0@roeck-us.net>
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> writes:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 12:58:11PM +0530, Sunny Patel wrote:
>> Good Point. So again revisited the watchdog core
>> api and list out the deprecated one and marked
>> as deprecated in doc and also mentioned it just
>> for legacy driver and not for newer one.
>>
>> As someof the legacy driver still have reference
>> to old api so just marked as deprecated in doc.
>>
>> Also checked with other watchdog related api
>> which are deprecated in driver but still present
>> in doc but didn't find any.
>>
>> ---
>
> The above would show up as commit message, there is no change log, and
> this e-mail was sent as response to v1. And I can see that without even
> looking at the patch itself.
>
> That makes me wonder what Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> is useful for. No one seems to bother reading it. We might as well
> just remove it.
It's good to point people at.
I do think it needs a serious rewrite to, among other things, turn it
into less of an intimidating tome. On my list of things to do. Now if
I could only buy a larger drive to hold that whole list...
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-10 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-09 17:53 [PATCH] Documentation: Refactored watchdog old doc Sunny Patel
2026-04-10 0:31 ` Randy Dunlap
2026-04-10 0:53 ` Guenter Roeck
2026-04-10 7:28 ` [PATCH v2] " Sunny Patel
2026-04-10 15:19 ` Guenter Roeck
2026-04-10 16:45 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2026-04-10 17:27 ` Guenter Roeck
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2026-04-10 7:15 Sunny Patel
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