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From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docbook: split kernel-api, add device-drivers book
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:29:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49985F19.3040508@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090215093014.GD29094@uranus.ravnborg.org>

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:26:44PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
>>
>> The kernel-api docbook was much larger than any of the others,
>> so processing it took longer and needed some docbook extras in
>> some cases, so split it into kernel-api (infrastructure etc.)
>> and device drivers/device subsystems.  This allows these docbooks
>> to be generated in parallel.  (This reduced the docbook processing
>> time on my 4-proc system with make -j4 from about 5min:16sec to
>> about 2min:01sec.)
>>
>> The chapters that were moved from kernel-api to device-drivers are:
>>
>> Driver Basics
>> Device drivers infrastructure
>> Parallel Port Devices
>> Message-based devices
>> Sound Devices
>> 16x50 UART Driver
>> Frame Buffer Library
>> Input Subsystem
>> Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
>> I2C and SMBus Subsystem
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
> 
> I like the split, and I assume you will carry the patch in a Documentation tree?
> 
> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

If I need to :)

or Andrew can merge it.

-- 
~Randy

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-15 18:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-12  0:26 [PATCH] docbook: split kernel-api, add device-drivers book Randy Dunlap
2009-02-15  9:30 ` Sam Ravnborg
2009-02-15 18:29   ` Randy Dunlap [this message]

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