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The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---1463770367-168415370-1773522078=:29478 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Sat, 14 Mar 2026, Kit Dallege wrote: > Hi Andrew, >=20 > Thanks for the positive feedback. I'll add the Assisted-by tag in v2. >=20 > To clarify =E2=80=94 I used Gorman's book as a reference for understandin= g 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. >=20 > 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? >=20 > 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 ---1463770367-168415370-1773522078=:29478--