Re: [RFC PATCH 4/7] Documentation: Add Linux Motion Control documentation

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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:42:39 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> David Jander <david@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > What I am unsure of is the rest of the documentation (which arguably still
> > needs to be written). I initially selected this place because of
> > Documentation/subsystem-apis.rst. LMC being a new "subsystem", made me think it
> > was the right thing to follow the structure of the contents there.
> > What I mean to put there is documentation of the driver API for motion
> > control drivers. I understand that while it doesn't really exist yet, I should
> > leave it out of this patch set, but when I am going to write it, should it
> > still go there, or is there now a better place?  
> 
> I've really been pushing to organize our documentation by the audience
> it is addressing, rather than by the developers who write it.  So
> driver-api documentation is best put into ... the driver-api book,
> Documentation/driver-api.

Sounds reasonable. I will put the driver api docs there once I come around to
writing them (I have the code commented already so that could be a start).

> My plan, that I haven't yet acted on, is to create Documentation/devices
> for device-specific docs that don't go anywhere else, then move a lot of
> stuff into it.  Much like what was done with Documentation/arch.  But
> anything that can go into the existing audience-focused manuals should
> go there.

Ok, I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.

Best regards,

-- 
David Jander




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