public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Pull] Some documentation patches
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:47:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47ED4B4D.8030200@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13387.1206728412@vena.lwn.net>

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> I've noticed that getting documentation patches merged seems to be a
> slower and more uncertain process than it was a while back.  So I
> figured I'd try to be one of the cool folks with their own git tree and
> see if that works better.  Linus, if you agree, could you please pull:

A lot of the time it's just a matter of the "merge window" for
non-critical patches.  OTOH, doc patches could be merged at just about
any time IMO.

>   git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6.git docs
> 
> To get the following:
> 
> Jonathan Corbet (3):
>       Add the seq_file documentation
>       Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches
>       Add a comment discouraging use of in_atomic()
> 
>  Documentation/SubmittingPatches        |   54 ++++++-
>  Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX     |    2 +
>  Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt |  283 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/hardirq.h                |    8 +
>  4 files changed, 344 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txt
> 
> These changes are (1) an updated version of the seq_file document first
> posted in 2003, (2) the much-reviewed patch tags documentation, and
> (3) a comment warning developers that in_atomic() doesn't mean what they
> think it means.  No code changes.
> 
> If this works out, and nobody objects, I'll try to run this tree into
> the future as a collection point for documentation patches which don't
> have a more obvious tree to travel through.

Getting doc patches merged can be slow sometimes (slower than needed),
but I'm still having success at it.

-- 
~Randy

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 18:20 [Pull] Some documentation patches Jonathan Corbet
2008-03-28 18:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-28 18:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-03-28 18:36   ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-03-28 19:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-28 19:22   ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-03-31 14:31   ` Dmitri Vorobiev
2008-04-01 20:00     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-03-28 19:39 ` Will Newton
2008-03-28 19:47 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=47ED4B4D.8030200@oracle.com \
    --to=randy.dunlap@oracle.com \
    --cc=corbet@lwn.net \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox