Re: [RFC bpf-next 3/3] docs: Split filter.txt into separate documents.

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Thu Aug 02 2018 - 12:02:34 EST


On 08/02/2018 08:28 AM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> In preparation for conversion of Documentation/networking/filter.txt it was
> noticed that the document contains a lot of information. The document may be
> more accessible if it was split up. Some parts pertain to everyone, let's put
> these bits in core-api/. The more hard core bits about eBPF internals could be
> put with the other BPF docs in Documentation/bpf/. There is a small bit of
> information on testing and miscellaneous matters that are useful for everyone
> (everyone does testing, right) so lets keep that info at the bottom of both new
> documents. (This includes the original authors.)
>
> Split Documentation/networking/filter.txt into Documentation/bpf/eBPF.rst and
> Documentation/core-api/bpf.rst
>
> Cc: Jay Schulist <jschlst@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc; Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/networking/filter.txt | 1480 ---------------------------
> 1 file changed, 1480 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 Documentation/networking/filter.txt

Missing git add given the new files are not present here?

Overall I agree it would be good if we move all the content over into
Documentation/bpf/ eventually, but would be useful to see a full diff.