Re: [RFC PATCH v1 03/25] printk-rb: define ring buffer struct and initializer

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 07:46:32 EST


On Tue 2019-02-12 15:46:40, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 03:29:41PM +0100, John Ogness wrote:
> > See Documentation/printk-ringbuffer.txt for details about the
> > initializer arguments.
>
> You can put that documentation here in the .h file and have it pulled
> out automatically into the documentation files when they are created.
> That way you always keep everything in sync properly.

Yes, please, move the documentation into the sources.

It is so easy to get the info via editor+cscope support
than via an external text file that many people do not
know about ;-)

For example, see include/linux/livepatch.h for inspiration.

Best Regards,
Petr