From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A473EC47404 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2019 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85880206C2 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2019 13:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728546AbfJGN3e (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Oct 2019 09:29:34 -0400 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:57442 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727801AbfJGN3c (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Oct 2019 09:29:32 -0400 Received: from lwn.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ms.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C5E68316; Mon, 7 Oct 2019 13:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2019 07:29:30 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Jessica Yu Cc: Matthias Maennich , Masahiro Yamada , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Adam Zerella , Michal Marek , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: move namespaces.rst out of kbuild directory Message-ID: <20191007072930.07b1e90a@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20191007081241.GA8279@linux-8ccs> References: <20191007043611.31036-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> <20191007060614.GA142813@google.com> <20191007081241.GA8279@linux-8ccs> Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:12:42 +0200 Jessica Yu wrote: > This was my line of thought as well, since the audience of > admin-guide/ is sysadmins and users. Namespaces are mostly relevant to > module authors and kernel developers. Currently, I don't think there > is an existing good place in Documentation/ for this topic :-/ > I suppose kernel-hacking/ might be the closest fit, as Adam suggested. I didn't see this thread before responding in the first, naturally... I think the core-api manual is probably as good a place as any for this. Changing the name to something like symbol-namespaces.rst is probably a good idea, since most people think of other things when they see "namespaces". Or perhaps that mythical Somebody could expand it into a proper description of symbol exports in general...:) Thanks, jon