Re: [PATCH] Documentation: update kmemleak architecture supportinfo

[Catalin Marinas]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 08:18:50AM +0100, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 10:09 AM, Maxin B John wrote:
> > -Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze and tile.
> > +Kmemleak is supported on x86, arm, powerpc, sparc, sh, microblaze, tile,
> > +s390 and mips.Please check DEBUG_KMEMLEAK dependencies in lib/Kconfig.debug
> > +for supported platforms.
> The point of adding my generic comment was to remove direct
> references to supported platforms.
> 
> In this case your patch should remove the line specifying supported
> platforms (x86, arm, powerpc, etc) and only add the line pointing
> the reader to lib/Kconfig.debug.
> 
> When a new platform will be supported lib/Kconfig.debug will
> be surely modified, and the change will be consistent with
> information in kmemleak.txt.

I think Daniel's suggestion is better, we don't have to worry about
changing the documentation every time we add a new architecture.

In addition to that, I would say "supported architectures" rather than
platforms.

Thanks.

-- 
Catalin

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