Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] Don't generate netlink .rst files inside $(srctree)

From: Donald Hunter
Date: Sat Jun 14 2025 - 09:30:18 EST


On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 at 13:14, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
<mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > docs: netlink: don't ignore generated rst files
> >
> > Maybe leave this patch to the end and change the description to be a
> > cleanup of the remants of the old approach.
>
> Ok for me, but I usually prefer keeping one patch per logical change.
> In this case, one patch adding support at the tool; the other one
> improving docs to benefit from the new feature.

My point is that "don't ignore generated rst files" is not a step on
the way from the old method towards the new method. The new method
does not involve generating any .rst files so the patch is something
more like "remove obsolete .gitignore from unused directory".