Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] Collect documentation-related tools under /tools/docs

[Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>]

Hi Jon,

On Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:10:08 -0600, 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   - Rebase on top of all of Mauro's changes (the most painful rebase I've
>     ever done, I think).

I tried to apply this series on top of current docs-next, and several earlier
merge points, but haven't succeeded so far, even with "git am -3" ...

Where am I supposed to apply this?

        Thanks, Akira

>   - Land everything in /tools/docs/ rather than /tools/doc/
> 
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250813213218.198582-1-corbet@lwn.net/
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