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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@collabora.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	bagasdotme@gmail.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
	laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl,
	mchehab@kernel.org, kernel@collabora.com,
	bob.beckett@collabora.com, nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: Add debugging section to process
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2024 22:28:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <06bb8d73-ba52-440a-be95-42977145c026@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241115060542.lqpu3sdqnsxass6q@basti-XPS-13-9310>



On 11/14/24 10:05 PM, Sebastian Fricke wrote:
> Hey Randy,
> 
> Thank you for the review, I'll apply these changes, I just found one
> advice below not terribly helpful maybe you can clarify ...
> 
> On 14.11.2024 21:06, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 11/13/24 3:17 AM, Sebastian Fricke wrote:
>>> This idea was formed after noticing that new developers experience
>>> certain difficulty to navigate within the multitude of different
>>> debugging options in the Kernel and while there often is good
>>> documentation for the tools, the developer has to know first that they
>>> exist and where to find them.
>>> Add a general debugging section to the Kernel documentation, as an
>>> easily locatable entry point to other documentation and as a general
>>> guideline for the topic.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke@collabora.com>
>>> ---
>>>  .../driver_development_debugging_guide.rst         | 214 ++++++++++++++++
>>>  Documentation/process/debugging/index.rst          |  65 +++++
>>>  .../debugging/userspace_debugging_guide.rst        | 278 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  Documentation/process/index.rst                    |   8 +-
>>>  4 files changed, 562 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>
>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/process/debugging/userspace_debugging_guide.rst b/Documentation/process/debugging/userspace_debugging_guide.rst
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 000000000000..a7c94407bcae
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/Documentation/process/debugging/userspace_debugging_guide.rst
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,278 @@
>>> +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>> +
>>> +==========================
>>> +Userspace debugging advice
>>> +==========================
>>> +
>>> +A brief overview of common tools to debug the Linux Kernel from userspace.
>>
>> Make that a sentence?
> 
> Can you clarify this?
> 
> This could either mean:
> - What you even bother to make a sentence out of that?
> - Please make a proper sentence out of this because it is hard to
>   understand
> - Please go into more detail because this is too brief
> 
> Or maybe something completely different :)

Sorry for my brevity.
I just meant "do you want to make that line a sentence, because it is not a sentence
in its current form." But I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

Thanks.

-- 
~Randy


  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-15  6:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-13 11:17 [PATCH v2 0/2] Documentation: Debugging guide Sebastian Fricke
2024-11-13 11:17 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: Add debugging section to process Sebastian Fricke
2024-11-15  4:52   ` Randy Dunlap
2024-11-15  5:06   ` Randy Dunlap
2024-11-15  6:05     ` Sebastian Fricke
2024-11-15  6:28       ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2024-11-13 11:17 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] docs: Add debugging guide for the media subsystem Sebastian Fricke
     [not found] <20241028-media_docs_improve_v3-v2-0-f350f98e1870@collabora.com>
     [not found] ` <20241028-media_docs_improve_v3-v2-1-f350f98e1870@collabora.com>
2024-11-13 11:25   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] docs: Add debugging section to process Sebastian Fricke

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