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Date:   Mon, 13 Aug 2018 12:37:40 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To:     "Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
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        Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
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        Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Convert filter.txt to RST
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 09:50:58PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:51:28AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 5:57 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > The objective actually is to have SPDX tags in all files in the kernel.
> > > That includes documentation, even though people, as always, care less
> > > about the docs than they do the code.
> > 
> > right, but let's do that as a separate patch set.
> > In the current set I'd focus on reviewing the actual doc changes.
> > In particular completely removing
> > Documentation/networking/filter.txt
> > feels wrong, since lots of websites point directly there.
> > Can we have at least few words there pointing to new location?
> 
> Something like ...
> 
> 
> ------------ filter.txt
> 
> BPF documentation can now be found in the following places:
> 
> - Introduction to BPF (Linux Socket Filter) - Documentation/userspace-api/socket-filter.rst
> - Classic BPF (cBPF) - Documentation/userspace-api/cBPF.rst
> - Internal BPF (eBPF) - Documentation/userspace-api/eBPF.rst

Internal ?
that was the name we used for may be a month many years ago.
Please use 'extended BPF' in new filter.txt and all other places.

since merge window is open the patches would need to wait until
bpf-next opens up in few weeks.

Thanks