From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755370AbZBOS3a (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:29:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753932AbZBOS3W (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:29:22 -0500 Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:53123 "EHLO rgminet12.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753857AbZBOS3V (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:29:21 -0500 Message-ID: <49985F19.3040508@oracle.com> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:29:45 -0800 From: Randy Dunlap Organization: Oracle Linux Engineering User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070801) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: lkml , akpm Subject: Re: [PATCH] docbook: split kernel-api, add device-drivers book References: <20090211162644.f3feb758.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20090215093014.GD29094@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20090215093014.GD29094@uranus.ravnborg.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Source-IP: acsmt704.oracle.com [141.146.40.82] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A09020B.49985EF2.00C4:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 04:26:44PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> From: Randy Dunlap >> >> 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 > > I like the split, and I assume you will carry the patch in a Documentation tree? > > Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg If I need to :) or Andrew can merge it. -- ~Randy