Re: [PATCH RFC 00/13] Collect documention-related tools under tools/doc

[Jani Nikula]

On Wed, 13 Aug 2025, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Our documentation-related tools are spread out over various directories;
> several are buried in the scripts/ dumping ground.  That makes them harder
> to discover and harder to maintain.
>
> Recently, the idea of creating a dedicated directory for documentation tools
> came up; I decided to see what it would look like.  This series creates a
> new directory, tools/doc, and moves various utilities there, hopefully
> fixing up all of the relevant references in the process.
>
> At the end, rather than move the old, Perl kernel-doc, I simply removed it.

A wholehearted

Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>

on all of it.

> The big elephant lurking in this small room is the home for Python modules;
> I left them under scripts/lib, but that is an even less appropriate place
> than it was before.  I would propose either tools/python or lib/python;
> thoughts on that matter welcome.

lib/ contains code that's built into the kernel, I think lib/python
would be out of place.

IMO tools/python (or tools/lib/python, no strong opinion) is more
appropriate.


BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel