From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Corbet Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 17:34:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/12] Documentation: move architectures together Message-Id: <20190712113427.62fa7ffc@lwn.net> List-Id: References: <20190712022018.27989-1-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> In-Reply-To: <20190712022018.27989-1-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Alex Shi Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-stm32@st-md-mailman.stormreply.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.orglinux-doc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 10:20:07 +0800 Alex Shi wrote: > There are many different archs in Documentation/ dir, it's better to > move them together in 'Documentation/arch' which follows from kernel source. So this seems certain to collide badly with Mauro's RST-conversion monster patch set. More to the point, though...if we are going to thrash up things this badly, we want to be sure that we're doing it right so we don't end up renaming everything again. Grouping stuff into a new arch/ subdirectory adds a bit of order, but it doesn't do much toward trying to organize our documentation for its readers, and it doesn't help us to modernize the docs and get rid of the old, useless stuff. A quick check shows that many of these files have seen no changes other than typo fixes since the beginning of the Git era. So, in my mind, this needs some thought. Maybe we want a Documentation/arch in the end, but I'm not convinced that we should just create it and fill it with a snow shovel. This might be a good thing to discuss at the kernel summit in September. Thanks, jon