On 1/28/23 01:35, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Lo! One small quick question.
On 28.01.23 00:46, Shuah Khan wrote:
Add a new section to the admin-guide with information of interest to
application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the
Linux kernel for safety critical applications.
That intro made my mind go "neither 'application developers' or 'system
integrators' are admins, so why is this added to the 'admin guide' then?"
I see what you are saying.
That made me look up the into for the admin guide, which is
```
The Linux kernel user’s and administrator’s guide
The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been
added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or
organization here — this material was not written to be a single,
coherent document! With luck things will improve quickly over time.
```
Adding another section that doesn't seem to a be a good fit feels a bit
like "making things worse than better". So wouldn't this maybe be a
good opportunity to create a totally new top-level section for
application developers and system integrators, even if it's tiny for
now? The audience is likely big enough to justify that -- and the topics
are likely different enough, too (of course sometimes there will be
overlap, as always). Any maybe it will help to bring other stuff over
from admin guide that is more targeted for application developers and
system integrators, which will help to get more structure into the
admin-guide.
I like the idea of creating a new top-level section for application developers
and system integrators. I foresee this section growing and also we can look
at other documents that are a good fit under this category and move them over.
Jon, Thoughts on this.
thanks,
-- Shuah
