From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [192.198.163.18]) (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 0A3171B043A; Thu, 14 Aug 2025 14:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=192.198.163.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755183576; cv=none; b=tU4irnyw+iMuV8hI36gT3VeqAejfyGTmgVmArviviepxdxPVk2gNqfyL3S0gIZuI1n9QF4w6dqG2rGawhuHeI/Oa7aWC7GJIe9tWFK+Z85qMTudtZMNsdIwcg6kMleKmxO22z8WCxjPg/GlFJ9m2nORq942QJ4ROwl/yO8X2f2Q= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755183576; c=relaxed/simple; bh=d3KrOdEoT2zJZHZunSCY/weFGSUsN4QrN+Bx3hTSE44=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=fcCWVoJjF6rzbRwtnG3xkpFgsczJZEM11TaRf0iDXKRD5QBbOmUbNEePmvZo0UDOoqCStP7IYoogK01CQ5g216I5hoPHNrO0mlrr8e2a76G5o/9nvXmsKfQBAr10lv+I3zO+u9/OhVrEoDZmEyjk5IVDSrO9FheJijxt4hGTYi0= 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=Yz5cvluJ; arc=none smtp.client-ip=192.198.163.18 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="Yz5cvluJ" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1755183574; x=1786719574; h=from:to:cc:subject:in-reply-to:references:date: message-id:mime-version; bh=d3KrOdEoT2zJZHZunSCY/weFGSUsN4QrN+Bx3hTSE44=; b=Yz5cvluJo6tm1NohYxOoJnu3SI4gfVpRWQzEVBaDp5pwJDI3NDX0CjkP u/1HWTycPa1xO2e7o9w6+QmDG39zmBSIMhwOjbkRzOEC+PqXnyMOL3Nep hq4jm/HlR+F3yKdD+QJm2cPy1X3Lx4i5hr/9bxek0i1herPmk8b/33v8x fOfUytdWrltzwB4tYg3iV5pgyqDikPq+nmd0/aXe1AgR6AHbPmX+ybLUK 6snvbbwku4W8LTGuMYsckLTqtjL+KvMr6xPMQmIn3oPYgMbInrUQg9T3q /I74AuSBI7P8cUks534uNaCL8a95r0PiNCOhaWXXKcBsSf/cRmG9PXYfk Q==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: 3sFSbYkdStaX0ZcyqhkAnQ== X-CSE-MsgGUID: 0znHLrl7QOeePsjD009AHQ== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11522"; a="56709637" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.17,287,1747724400"; d="scan'208";a="56709637" Received: from orviesa010.jf.intel.com ([10.64.159.150]) by fmvoesa112.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 14 Aug 2025 07:59:32 -0700 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: CBQUz6+KSRyap+idAss4VQ== X-CSE-MsgGUID: p2QKORO8S/209ndVJ73Uow== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.17,287,1747724400"; d="scan'208";a="165999986" Received: from mwiniars-desk2.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO localhost) ([10.245.246.100]) by orviesa010-auth.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 14 Aug 2025 07:59:29 -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 RFC 00/13] Collect documention-related tools under tools/doc In-Reply-To: <20250813213218.198582-1-corbet@lwn.net> Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - Westendinkatu 7, 02160 Espoo References: <20250813213218.198582-1-corbet@lwn.net> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:59:26 +0300 Message-ID: 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 Wed, 13 Aug 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/doc, 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. A wholehearted Acked-by: Jani Nikula on all of 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. lib/ contains code that's built into the kernel, I think lib/python would be out of place. IMO tools/python (or tools/lib/python, no strong opinion) is more appropriate. BR, Jani. -- Jani Nikula, Intel