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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0.1 0/9] UMCG early preview/RFC patchset
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On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 8:08 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

[...]
> Documentation patches can help to guide that discussion; they also need
> to be reviewed as well.  So yes, I think they should be present from the
> beginning.  But then, that's the position I'm supposed to take :)  This
> is a big change to the kernel's system-call API, I don't think that
> there can be a proper discussion of that without a description of what
> you're trying to do.

Hi Jon,

There are doc comments in patches 2 and 7 in umcg.c documenting the
new syscalls. That said, I'll prepare a separate doc patch - I guess
I'll add Documentation/scheduler/umcg.rst, unless you tell me there is
a better place to do that. ETA mid-to-late next week.

Thanks,
Peter