Re: RFC: Adding arch-specific user ABI documentation in linux-man

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On 5/5/20 2:43 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 11:44:55AM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
>> Michael has been nagging me on and off about that for, what, 10 years now?
>> I would therefore be very much in favour of having our ptrace extensions
>> documented!
>>
>> We could even put this stuff under Documentation/arm64/man/ if it's deemed
>> too CPU-specific for the man-pages project, but my preference would still
>> be for it to be hosted there alongside all the other man pages.
> 
> Stuffing random things into the kernel tree is painful for some people.

Yes, and too often not easily noticeable for user-space programmers.
> 
> For example, if you cross-build your kernel, then the stuff in the
> tools/ subdirectory is totally useless (I think everything except
> perf) because you can't build it.
> 
> Let's stop making the mistake of constantly shoving stuff into the
> kernel source tree.

Agrred.

Thanks,

Michael


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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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