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Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: move namespaces.rst out of kbuild directory
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On 10/7/19 6:41 AM, Matthias Maennich wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 07:29:30AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
>> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:12:42 +0200
>> Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This was my line of thought as well, since the audience of
>>> admin-guide/ is sysadmins and users. Namespaces are mostly relevant to
>>> module authors and kernel developers. Currently, I don't think there
>>> is an existing good place in Documentation/ for this topic :-/
>>> I suppose kernel-hacking/ might be the closest fit, as Adam suggested.
>>
>> I didn't see this thread before responding in the first, naturally...
>>
>> I think the core-api manual is probably as good a place as any for this.
>> Changing the name to something like symbol-namespaces.rst is probably a
>> good idea, since most people think of other things when they see
>> "namespaces".  Or perhaps that mythical Somebody could expand it into a
>> proper description of symbol exports in general...:)
> 
> As I said in the other thread, I am happy for it to be moved to a better
> location. core-api/ as well as kernel-hacking/ seem to be good
> locations.

core-api/ please.  kernel-hacking/ does not make any sense to me.

> I could imagine expanding the documentation, but would not like to
> commit to it right now. (Even though I feel very encouraged by your talk
> in Paris, Jon. Thanks for that!)


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~Randy