Re: [PATCH 0/3] docs: a few improvements for atomic_ops.rst

From: Will Deacon
Date: Mon Mar 16 2020 - 11:48:43 EST


On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 10:06:50AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 08:56:15PM +0100, Jonathan Neuschäfer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this is a short series of unrelated fixes that make the atomic
> > operations documentation look and read a bit better.
> >
> > Jonathan Neuschäfer (3):
> > docs: atomic_ops: Remove colons where they don't make sense
> > docs: atomic_ops: Move two paragraphs into the warning block above
> > docs: atomic_ops: Steer readers towards using refcount_t for reference
> > counts
> >
> > Documentation/core-api/atomic_ops.rst | 24 ++++++++++++-------
>
> FWIW, I consider this a dead document. I've written
> Documentation/atomic_t.txt and Documentation/atomic_bitops.txt as a
> replacement. If there is anything in atomic_ops you feel is missing from
> those two, please tell as I'm planing to delete atomic_ops soon.

For the deletion:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>

Will