Re: [RFC PATCH] ALSA: Add debugging guide for audio issues

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>]

Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I see a few possibilities, none perfect:
>
> a. in Documentation/driver-api/debug/  [not quite driver-api though]

No, it's not API stuff, and not limited to drivers.

> b. in Documentation/core-api/ along with debugging-via-ohci1394.rst
> [maybe in a new /debug/ subdir]

Again, not really API stuff.

> c. in (new) Documentation/debug/ and invite the kernel debugging
> community to add some of their docs here as well.

If we really want to separate the mechanics of kernel development from
the associated process information - not always an easy separation, IMO
- we could make a top-level "development" directory, put a lot of the
other relevant stuff there, and include the debugging stuff.  It seems
really weird to put debugging by itself, though; it's only part of the
picture.

Why is Documentation/process so bad?

Thanks,

jon