Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Avoid duplicate Kconfig inclusion

[Randy Dunlap]

On 1/15/23 16:42, Peter Foley wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 8:25 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The duplicate inclusion does seem worth fixing, but I wonder if you're
>> deleting the right one?  Having the documentation Kconfig under lib
>> seems a bit strange, somehow; Documentation/ is a top-level directory,
>> after all.
> 
> I thought about that.
> Looking at the history, the toplevel inclusion was added in
> b1663d7e3a7961 (2019-06-04), and the lib/Kconfig.debug inclusion was
> added in 75442fb0ccaacd (2020-10-30).
> Given the actual entries in Documentation/Kconfig
> (WARN_MISSING_DOCUMENTS and WARN_ABI_ERRORS), putting them under the
> "Kernel hacking" menu makes sense to me.
> We *could* add a new top-level menu to Documentation/Kconfig, but it
> doesn't really seem like an improvement over having them live in
> Kernel hacking.

Since b1663d7e3a7961 puts the Documentation/Kconfig just after
lib/Kconfig.debug, there's not much difference in its location in a
*config menu, but I would rather see it separated (independent) from
lib/Kconfig.debug because I think that it would make any future changes
easier.

Also, b1663d7e3a7961 came first. :)

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~Randy