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Re: Renaming Documentation/ [was [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book]

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 07:37:34AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 06:30:48 +0200
> Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> wrote:
> 
> > One Silly request of mine:
> > 
> > Is there a chance moving "./Documentation" to something shorter
> > like "./doc"? Even with "Text completion" (in Emacs [1]), IMO 
> > "Documentation" is to long.
> 
> I'd be entirely in favor of that.  It would require some pretty
> widespread and high-level buy-in, though, including from the device-tree
> folks.  That truly is something to raise at the kernel summit; if Linus
> incinerates me, we'll know it's not going to happen...:)

In the meantime, simply dropping in a symlink is a convenient shortcut
for individual developers (for example, I have a symlink at the
top-level from patches to .git/patches/origin to make accessing my
guilt patch stack more convenient).

					- Ted

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[PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 16/32] Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 19/32] Documentation/magic-number.txt: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 31/32] Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 25/32] Documentation/parport.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 32/32] Documentation/parport.txt: fix table to show on LaTeX Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 27/32] Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 21/32] Documentation/module-signing.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 05/32] docs-rst: add documents to development-process Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 17/32] Documentation/initrd.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:00 +0200
  [PATCH 13/32] Documentation/BUG-HUNTING: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 04/32] Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 20/32] Documentation/md.txt: Convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 14/32] Documentation/CodeOfConflict: add it to the development-process book Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 10/32] Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 09/32] Documentation/basic_profiling.rst: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 02/32] REPORTING-BUGS: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 06/32] docs-rst: create an user's manual book Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 11/32] Documentation/serial-console.txt: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 03/32] README: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 12/32] Documentation/braille-console: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 22/32] Documentation/mono.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 07/32] Documentation/adding-syscalls.txt: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 28/32] Documentation/sysrq.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 24/32] Documentation/oops-tracing.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 29/32] Documentation/unicode.txt: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 30/32] Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 26/32] Documentation/ramoops.txt: convert it to ReST format Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 23/32] Documentation/java.txt: convert to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:10 +0200
  [PATCH 08/32] Documentation/bad_memory.txt: convert it to ReST markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-17 19:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve  development-process book Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-10-18 00:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> - 2016-10-18 06:40 +0200
      Renaming Documentation/ [was  [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual  and improve development-process book] Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-10-18 15:40 +0200
        Re: Renaming Documentation/ [was  [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's  manual and improve development-process book] Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2016-10-18 16:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve  development-process book Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-18 10:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-18 12:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve  development-process book Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-18 12:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> - 2016-10-18 12:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve  development-process book Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-18 12:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve  development-process book Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-10-19 01:30 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve  development-process book Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> - 2016-10-19 16:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 00/32] Create an User's manual and improve development-process book Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> - 2016-10-19 17:00 +0200

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