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Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs tree

From Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs tree
Date 2016-11-14 17:20 +0100
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On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:01:13 +0100
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> > Sigh.  I'm glad this work is being done, but if we're going to create
> > some coordinated documentation it might be good to involve the docs
> > maintainer when doing it...  
> 
> Sorry, will put you guys in Cc at the next time (although all
> conversions have been done in the sound tree).

That's kind of my point.  The sound tree is not an appropriate place to be
making changes to files like Documentation/index.rst.

> > In this case, I would have liked the chance to comment.  This
> > documentation belongs in the driver-api document, not the top-level
> > one. So, in an ideal world, I'd like to see this stuff moved there,
> > preferably with the patches going though the docs tree.  
> 
> If there needs any other changes, feel free to merge my
> topic/restize-docs branch into yours and keep working there:
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git
> topic/resize-docs
> 
> It's based on vanilla 4.9-rc4, so it must be clean to be merged.  A
> few misc fixes will come up in for-next branch, but they should be
> harmless to your changes -- at least the api-related changes won't be
> touched.

OK, I'll probably do that; expect me to run a patch by you that moves it
to the proper place in the hierarchy.

Thanks,

jon

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linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs tree Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> - 2016-11-14 01:20 +0100
  Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs  tree Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-11-14 02:00 +0100
    Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs tree Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2016-11-14 09:10 +0100
      Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs  tree Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-11-14 17:20 +0100
        Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs tree Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2016-11-14 17:30 +0100
      Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs  tree Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-11-19 00:50 +0100
        Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs tree Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> - 2016-11-19 01:30 +0100
          Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs  tree Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-11-19 01:40 +0100

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