Re: [-mm][PATCH 4/4] Add rlimit controller documentation

From: Balbir Singh
Date: Tue May 06 2008 - 04:07:18 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 11:09:52 +0530 Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> Ho hum, I had to do rather a lot of guesswork here to try to understand
>>> your proposed overall design for this feature. I'd prefer to hear about
>>> your design via more direct means.
>> Do you have any suggestions on how to do that better. Would you like
>> documentation to be the first patch in the series? I had sent out two RFC's
>> earlier and got comments and feedback from several people.
>>
>
> I do like to see the overall what-i-am-setting-out-to-do description in
> there somewhere - sometimes a Docuemtation/ file is appropriate, other
> times do it via changelog.
>

I think having documentation upfront does make sense in that case. I'll also try
and make the changelogs more verbose. I usually try to point to the previous
discussions in the introduction patch.

> But the first part of the review is reviewing whatever it is which you set
> out to achieve. Once that's understood and sounds like a good idea then we
> can start looking at how you did it.
>
>

Yes, I agree.

--
Warm Regards,
Balbir Singh
Linux Technology Center
IBM, ISTL
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