Re: [PATCH] doc: move namespaces.rst out of kbuild directory

[Matthias Maennich]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 07:29:30AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 10:12:42 +0200
> Jessica Yu <jeyu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This was my line of thought as well, since the audience of
> > admin-guide/ is sysadmins and users. Namespaces are mostly relevant to
> > module authors and kernel developers. Currently, I don't think there
> > is an existing good place in Documentation/ for this topic :-/
> > I suppose kernel-hacking/ might be the closest fit, as Adam suggested.
>
> I didn't see this thread before responding in the first, naturally...
>
> I think the core-api manual is probably as good a place as any for this.
> Changing the name to something like symbol-namespaces.rst is probably a
> good idea, since most people think of other things when they see
> "namespaces".  Or perhaps that mythical Somebody could expand it into a
> proper description of symbol exports in general...:)

As I said in the other thread, I am happy for it to be moved to a better
location. core-api/ as well as kernel-hacking/ seem to be good
locations.

I could imagine expanding the documentation, but would not like to
commit to it right now. (Even though I feel very encouraged by your talk
in Paris, Jon. Thanks for that!)

Cheers,
Matthias

> Thanks,
>
> jon