Re: [PATCH] docs: submitting-patches: Discuss interleaved replies

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 11.05.23 20:37, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:21:36AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 10.05.23 20:34, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> Top-posting has been strongly discouraged in Linux development, but this
>>> was actually not written anywhere in the common documentation about
>>> sending patches and replying to reviews. Add a section about trimming
>>> and interleaved replies.
>>
>> Thx for doing this.
>>
>>> [...]
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
>>
>> For some reason we have duplicate code^w documentation for this, hence
>> I'd say the same or a similar text should also be added to one of the
>> filed in Documentation/process/[0-9].*rst ; from a quick
>> Documentation/process/6.Followthrough.rst might be the best one.
>>
>> Maybe in fact the text should move there and submitting-patches.rst
>> should have a much shorter version, as it's meant to be the terser of
>> the two docs about this.
> 
> Hm, The place where it is mentioned is even shorter,

Ohh, it is mentioned there already? I briefly looked, but had missed it.
Sorry. :-/

> so I kind of like
> it in submittingpatches. But, I'm open to whatever seems best.

Guess that is Jonathan's call to make. Your v2 patch to me looks a bit
like adding quite a bit of new and slow code to the fast path while
adjusting faster code in the slow path.

But the relation and interaction between those two texts in a bit messy
already, so maybe it doesn't matter that much.

Ciao, Thorsten