Re: [RFC PATCH] ALSA: Add debugging guide for audio issues

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> writes:

> On 11/7/24 2:25 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

>> If we really want to separate the mechanics of kernel development from
>> the associated process information - not always an easy separation, IMO
>> - we could make a top-level "development" directory, put a lot of the
>> other relevant stuff there, and include the debugging stuff.  It seems
>> really weird to put debugging by itself, though; it's only part of the
>> picture.
>
> I could go with that.
>
>> 
>> Why is Documentation/process so bad?
>
> Documentation/process/ is meta-documentation about kernel social "standards"
> among other things. It is "soft" documentation, whereas debugging (IMHO) is
> "hard" documentation.
>
> But hey, it's all your baby. Do whatever pleases you. :)

Hopefully not all mine...:)

My suggestion is to put it under process for now just to not block
forward progress on this work.  We can surely relocate it if we want to
make a proper development-processes top-level directory in the future.

Thanks,

jon