From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Marco Elver <elver@google.com>,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
Ignacio Encinas Rubio <ignacio@iencinas.com>,
lkmm@lists.linux.dev, Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] docs: Pull LKMM documentation into dev-tools book
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 10:34:48 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ldmee4pj.fsf@trenco.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7ce84a93-5cbc-420e-894a-06a0372c52ab@gmail.com>
Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com> writes:
> Currently, LKMM docs are not included in any of kernel documentation
> books.
>
> Commit e40573a43d16 ("docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt
> into the core-api book") covered plain-text docs under Documentation/
> by using the "include::" directive along with the ":literal:" option.
>
> As LKMM docs are not under Documentation/, the same approach would not
> work due to the directive's restriction.
>
> As a matter of fact, kernel documentation has an extended directive
> by the name of "kernel-include::", which loosens such restriction and
> accepts any files under the kernel source tree.
>
> Rather than moving LKMM docs around, use the latter and pull them into
> the dev-tools book next to KCSAN.
>
> Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
> ---
> v2:
> - Rebased on top of docs-next.
> - v1 was intended to be upstreamed through Paul's lkmm tree.
> Given the changes queued in Jon's tree where docs build scripts have
> seen rather radical changes, upstreaming this through Jon's tree
> sounds reasonable to me.
> - Removed "$SOURCEDIR/" from path to the "kernel-include::" directives.
> "kernel-include::" now treats them as relative to kernel source dir.
> - Amended summary phrase.
>
> Paul, could you ack on this change going through Jon's tree?
Applied, thanks.
jon
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-11 8:29 [PATCH v2] docs: Pull LKMM documentation into dev-tools book Akira Yokosawa
2025-09-11 13:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2025-09-16 16:34 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
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