Em Thu, 11 Apr 2019 14:07:31 -0700 Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 05:43:57PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > Em Thu, 11 Apr 2019 12:43:24 -0600 > > Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> escreveu: > > > > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:22:37 -0300 > > > Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > This series converts the contents of Documentation/hwmon to ReST > > > > format. > > > > > > > > PS.: I opted to group the conversion files per groups of maintainer > > > > set, as, if I were to generate one patch per file, it would give around > > > > 160 patches. > > > > > > > > I also added those patches to my development tree at: > > > > https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=hwmon > > > > > > > > If you want to see the results, they're at: > > > > https://www.infradead.org/~mchehab/hwmon/ > > > > > > This set seems generally good and could probably be applied as-is. But I > > > have to ask...is there a reason to not take the last step and actually > > > bring this stuff into the Sphinx doc tree? > > > > > > We seem to be mostly documenting sysfs files and such. I am *guessing* > > > that perhaps the set should move to Documentation/admin-guide/hwmon? Or > > > have I misunderstood the intended audience here? > > > > :-) > > > > Yeah, I'd say that 80% of the contents there are user-faced. > > > > Yet, the main issue with this (and other driver subsystems) is that there's > > a mix of userspace and Kernelspace stuff. One somewhat simple case is > > the abituguru: it has a "datasheet" file: > > > > abituguru-datasheet > > > > This contains programming information for the corresponding drivers, > > while abituguru and abituguru3 contains mostly userspace > > stuff (still, it also contains the I2C address, with shouldn't mean > > anything for the user). > > > > However, if you take a look at w83781d, you'll see a mix of both > > userspace and driver developer info there... it has a chapter called > > "Data sheet updates", for example, with is probably meaningless for > > anyone but the hwmon driver developers. > > > > That's, btw, a pattern that happens a lot inside device driver > > documents on almost all subsystems I checked: driver-specific > > documentation is usually not split into user-facing/kernel-facing. > > > > While nobody does such split, IMHO, the best would be to keep the > > information outside Documentation/admin-guide. But hey! You're > > the Doc maintainer. If you prefer to move, I'm perfectly fine > > with that. > > > > Same here, but please don't move the files which are kernel facing only. > > How do you want to handle this series ? Do you expect it to be pushed > through hwmon, or through Documentation, or do you plan to push yourself ? > > If the series isn't pushed through hwmon, we'll likely have a couple of > conflicts against hwmon-next. Guenter, I won't be pushing it myself. IMO, it makes more sense to apply it at hwmon-next, except if it would cause some conflicts against docs-next. Regards, Mauro