Re: [PATCH] Docs/mm: document Shared Memory Filesystem

[Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>]

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On Sat, 14 Mar 2026, Kit Dallege wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Thanks for the positive feedback. I'll add the Assisted-by tag in v2.
> 
> To clarify — I used Gorman's book as a reference for understanding the
> subsystem structure, not as a source to copy from. The documentation was
> written by reading the current source code and verified against it. I
> didn't contact Mel beforehand but the book outline was only used to
> identify which topics each stub file should cover.
> 
> Happy to have the relevant MM developers review each patch. Should I
> resend the series with the Assisted-by tags, or wait for further
> feedback first?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kit

And now the negative feedback: thanks, but NAK to this particular patch.

Documentation/mm/shmfs.rst? I hadn't realized that such a file existed.

tmpfs has been known as tmpfs since 2.4.4 (but a few people do still say
shmfs, and I'd agree with them that shmfs would have been a better name).

Please send a patch, either to delete shmfs.rst and its index entry,
or to redirect its readers to

Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst

I haven't looked up the preferred way to redirect in Documentation:
I expect Jon or Claude can assist you with that :-)

Hugh