From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FB27D089 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729011AbeLTQiO (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:38:14 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.133]:34206 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726604AbeLTQiO (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:38:14 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=bombadil.20170209; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To: Subject:Sender:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=CG/jSNeNChtKOqB2GhAVgwv4KkxMfGgWF7pWoOr89kI=; b=u2tt3Yrf2gIH3x6Lnk4xszbFQ DKw9iASYROnevBlH9Xf7ze13R9C39PJ4lpFpZ3KD90t42ccnswbKEo890nx7HyTrjz3rncZL01Djt 3DOIokdM0vEuFIFV4noCtHDVgZd1KQwohx8FcUY1Fd0L0uB4WEOV5HtQ18Q15XTywKy+FTK2l10WW gp67ZHzG5XYNIhudHXe42JPZfbi0ByP9kMr+GFMUy/gRZcCQ1QtBXu+Nnbq92Ka5/FkxNaaRCEq42 sJ6lrCeCBfkXoTGRNaXeFtdJbA6Vs8K6EGj8bZnNo6bPeFS0NcKBtOBN3rV02VlOCJJH4sp92X6aS Jmf/TQA5g==; Received: from static-50-53-52-16.bvtn.or.frontiernet.net ([50.53.52.16] helo=midway.dunlab) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.90_1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ga1Kv-0000cj-Ji; Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:38:13 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Revamp admin-guide/tainted-kernels.rst to make it more comprehensible To: Jonathan Corbet , Thorsten Leemhuis Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20181217152043.9989-1-linux@leemhuis.info> <20181217112437.5fe868eb@lwn.net> <8f67a8ca-bf64-c537-843a-b03bcfc3dace@infradead.org> <96fc8865-c54f-5c6c-f6c8-d7a5a12735e6@leemhuis.info> <20181220082819.69fc3e5c@lwn.net> From: Randy Dunlap Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 08:38:06 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181220082819.69fc3e5c@lwn.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On 12/20/18 7:28 AM, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:23:38 +0100 > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > >> While at it: Jonathan, you mentioned putting the script in scripts/, but >> according to the Makefile in that directory it is "for various helper >> programs used throughout the kernel for the build process". That's one >> reason why it feels wrong to put it there. Another one: that script >> targets users and thus we should try to make sure they can access it >> easily. That's why I'm currently inclined to put it in tools/ somewhere. > > Yeah, tools/ is a better place. Maybe a tools/debugging directory or some > such? chktaint is similar (IMO) to scripts/decodecode though. @Thorsten: Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap thanks, -- ~Randy