Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] Begin reorganizing the arch documentation

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Thu Mar 23 2023 - 14:48:38 EST


Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 3/15/23 14:15, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> On the other hand, it *is* a fair amount of churn. If it's more than
>> people can handle, I'll quietly back away and we'll muddle along as we have
>> been; this isn't something I'm going to dig in my heels over.
>
> I'm not fundamentally opposed to this. It'll probably cost me a few
> keystrokes in moments of confusion, but that's the price of progress. :)
>
> Things in Documentation/ have also been mobile enough in recent years
> that I tend to "find Documentation | grep something" rather than try to
> remember the paths for things. Adding an arch/ in there won't hurt
> anything.

So, if I'm not going to get tarred and feathered for this, I'd like to
proceed, and am wondering what the best way is. Patch 1 is a pure docs
change that won't affect anybody. I could also apply #2 if I could get
an ack from the x86 community, but that is sure to create conflicts with
tip and get us all more cheery notes from Stephen Rothwell.

I could do the "fix up and send at the end of the merge window" trick
with it. Or perhaps some of this should go via tip? Suggestions
welcome.

Thanks,

jon