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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: rtc-linux@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	a.zummo@towertech.it
Subject: Re: [rtc-linux] Re: [PATCH 1/2] rtc: Document the sysfs interface
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 16:23:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904162311.a2a3f19b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090904165206.GF1576@sirena.org.uk>

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009 17:52:06 +0100
Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:39:18PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 05:35:21PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Wouldn't this be better placed under Documentation/ABI?
> 
> > Unsure. I'd assumed it made more sense in the existing docs.
> 
> My understanding is that the sysfs ABI (and ABIs in general, I guess)
> should be moving towards the more formal style of Documentation/ABI to
> help manage userspace expectations - the separation of the documentation
> applies to most other things in there as well.

Yes, I think you're right.

But I'm not going to pass on a documentation patch just because it's in
the wrong place ;)


      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04 16:26 [PATCH 1/2] rtc: Document the sysfs interface Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] rtc: Add boot_timesource sysfs attribute Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:25   ` [rtc-linux] " Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 16:30     ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:38       ` [rtc-linux] " Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 16:41         ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:52           ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 16:55             ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 17:03               ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 17:09                 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-05 21:11                   ` Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-06  1:34                   ` Mark Brown
2009-09-14 22:59             ` Karel Zak
2009-09-04 16:26 ` [rtc-linux] [PATCH 1/2] rtc: Document the sysfs interface Alessandro Zummo
2009-09-04 16:35 ` Mark Brown
2009-09-04 16:39   ` Matthew Garrett
2009-09-04 16:52     ` [rtc-linux] " Mark Brown
2009-09-04 23:23       ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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