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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Rob Jones <rob.jones@codethink.co.uk>
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@codethink.co.uk,
	keescook@chromium.org, penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESUBMIT 1/2] fs/seq_file: Create new function seq_open_init()
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:07:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140925110725.71eea76c45b74a0f8f3689c2@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542456E0.1040404@codethink.co.uk>

On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:54:40 +0100 Rob Jones <rob.jones@codethink.co.uk> wrote:

> On 25/09/14 18:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:10:05 +0100 Rob Jones <rob.jones@codethink.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>> A global exported-to-modules interface should be documented, please.
> >>> Especially when it has a void* argument.  seq_file.c is patchy - some
> >>> of it is documented, some of it uses the read-programmers-mind
> >>> approach.
> >>
> >> I have included documentation as the second patch. Would it have been
> >> better to include them in a single patch? I didn't do that because
> >> seq_file and Documentation have different maintainers. I'm still
> >> learning the protocols here.
> >
> > A single patch would be OK.
> >
> > Documentation/ is nice, but I don't think people think to look there.
> > Some kerneldoc within the .c would be a good addition.
> 
> Now is a good time, can you point me at an instance of good practice of
> this?

Search fs/seq_file.c for "^/**"?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-25 18:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-24 11:15 [PATCH RESUBMIT 0/2] fs/seq_file: Add seq_open_init() Rob Jones
2014-09-24 11:15 ` [PATCH RESUBMIT 1/2] fs/seq_file: Create new function seq_open_init() Rob Jones
2014-09-24 21:39   ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-25  9:10     ` Rob Jones
2014-09-25 14:49       ` Randy Dunlap
2014-09-25 17:39         ` Rob Jones
2014-09-25 17:50       ` Andrew Morton
2014-09-25 17:54         ` Rob Jones
2014-09-25 18:07           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2014-09-24 11:15 ` [PATCH RESUBMIT 2/2] Documentation/filesystem/seq_file: document seq_open_init() Rob Jones
2014-09-24 18:06 ` [PATCH RESUBMIT 0/2] fs/seq_file: Add seq_open_init() Kees Cook
2014-09-25  8:57   ` Rob Jones
2014-09-25 16:09     ` Kees Cook
2014-09-25 17:36       ` Rob Jones
2014-09-25 17:40         ` Kees Cook

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