Re: [PATCH] Docs/mm/damon: document exclusivity of special-purpose modules

[SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:37:34 +0800 Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 15, 2026 at 12:25 AM SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Liew,
> >
> Hello SeongJae,
> 
> >
> > And thank you for fixing this!  But, the broken "contents" directive is added
> > by a commit on damon/next tree [1] that not yet planned to be upstreamed.  That
> > is, seems this patch is based on damon/next tree.  As a result, this patch
> > cannot be cleanly applied on mm-new.  We prefer making patches based on mm-new
> > unless there is a reason.
> >
> Okay, I will make sure to follow this in my future submissions.
> 
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Liew Rui Yan <aethernet65535@gmail.com>
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/damon/20260314002119.79742-1-sj@kernel.org/T/#t
> >
> > I think it would be nice to give a context about the link.
> >
> That makes perfect sense.
> 
> >
> > Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
> >
> Thank you again, this marks my first contribution to Linux, and I truly
> appreciate your guidance!

It's my honor to help your first contribution! :)

> 
> >
> > Assuming you agree to my above suggestions, I added this patch to the top area
> > of damon/next after dropping the "contents" directive fix and adding a simple
> > sentence describing the context of the link.  The change made to this patch for
> > that is as below.  If you don't mind, I will post it as v2 of this patch by
> > tomorrow morning in Pacific Time.  Please let me know if you have any comments
> > about the plan.
> >
> The plan sounds great to me. Thank you for taking care of the v2
> submission!

Great, I may post it tomorrow morning.


Thanks,
SJ

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