From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [192.198.163.8]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A77533148DD; Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:05:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=192.198.163.8 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761311136; cv=none; b=MDnT/H9LG8oOEPgKSqClSm99hpfmhBAJ/jGIf5faif7D6MkiSR8AHj00hUKZqs9dYfkPnQr3PEzHlZiu71XgrO1ZVbrNVwOVaRlShQaMz6keowAhHtUIivBoiTC0hFfrbFQWHpAlsWQz4AhOsC8TUuzdjh24G1g5/P4Vcy9XuD0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761311136; c=relaxed/simple; bh=eWVfHAy/Y1MgnCBk77yAbcbeYMqjJFLxcrncLASEdUw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=dMnLqV/pnJ0ByDY8NBPWJgrLXbUq9bBh69MYv2AZ1RVjqdEmSSk8csVUEXoPx4DQI1b1odcWykEqso5DkRqAQR0UU1ZmkP5kC90I/Y3rvnA4W1JJSG71xuZKhmuJAWWazKTmbULQoFLjKWlK35Gr6qc3QV7XWAyctegyMC167sw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=intel.com; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b=UHiS2/le; arc=none smtp.client-ip=192.198.163.8 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=intel.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=intel.com header.i=@intel.com header.b="UHiS2/le" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1761311135; x=1792847135; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:date: message-id:mime-version; bh=eWVfHAy/Y1MgnCBk77yAbcbeYMqjJFLxcrncLASEdUw=; b=UHiS2/leOPSldLkNfplVyshLYpnlKyiXqF93NrddFb5bttNHAHo9z/OP LG9btBV6bLNDnxU0muegraKnCH44Wlk+vgjIxGjUHImo8Gb7f15sISsSY 1QY2vshqKtRCejrDItyKVAdKSudZVFQ+38vSsAsPWvAoDIlsDWooczUCo RpJ33WzPrmNsC/Yonij/ZH11SxhHB58dMQ4KpCmmNGBZIMBZc3bb+1NRC E1LabnELZP//+n5HbgcFtYtJFb7gypMBAW31asFYHgP6f8tIGfFjWV3ls r2rOJ9UK7yDb3fIMOMizmdKoWr2piO7DBZwtNXHjnURoa1WGjoiOnAtQt g==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: psPdySGeStOm5EKMQcROMg== X-CSE-MsgGUID: C4Apgp7kQ/+ZDS9dQH56Vg== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11586"; a="81119368" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,252,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="81119368" Received: from orviesa006.jf.intel.com ([10.64.159.146]) by fmvoesa102.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Oct 2025 06:05:34 -0700 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: Y3vLbxaBTpu5PVLAp/8bSw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: ENAXkJ4vTpuel3Wv8VEQ7A== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,252,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="183600413" Received: from dhhellew-desk2.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.245.246.230]) by orviesa006-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 24 Oct 2025 06:05:31 -0700 From: Jani Nikula To: Jonathan Corbet , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Akira Yokosawa , Randy Dunlap , Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Collect documentation-related tools under /tools/docs In-Reply-To: <20251023161027.697135-1-corbet@lwn.net> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo References: <20251023161027.697135-1-corbet@lwn.net> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:05:28 +0300 Message-ID: <4b965910f35458a708ae3d810f1d766720f96c4f@intel.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain On Thu, 23 Oct 2025, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Our documentation-related tools are spread out over various directories; > several are buried in the scripts/ dumping ground. That makes them harder > to discover and harder to maintain. > > Recently, the idea of creating a dedicated directory for documentation tools > came up; I decided to see what it would look like. This series creates a > new directory, tools/docs, and moves various utilities there, hopefully > fixing up all of the relevant references in the process. > > At the end, rather than move the old, Perl kernel-doc, I simply removed it. FWIW, Acked-by: Jani Nikula > The big elephant lurking in this small room is the home for Python modules; > I left them under scripts/lib, but that is an even less appropriate place > than it was before. I would propose either tools/python or lib/python; > thoughts on that matter welcome. I think lib is for kernel code, so lib/python seems out of place. I don't think tools/python emphasizes lib enough, and gut feeling says it'll end up containing random python tools, which I think is the wrong way to organize things. tools/lib/python? In any case, I think either tools/python or tools/lib/python is better than, say, tools/docs/lib, because the python libraries should be geared at being more generally useful than just for docs. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel