On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 01:40:50PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 18:35, Sven Hoexter <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, > > cgroups-v1/v2 documentation got moved to the "admin-guide" subfolder > > and converted from .txt files to .rst > > Thanks for your patch and for the ping, and sorry I did not respond > earlier. I had not forgotten this patch, but I was still working out > what to do with it. > > The general philosophy in man-pages is to maintain historical > information, since the man-pages that are installed on a system may > not correspond to the kernel running on that system. Indeed, a valid point I did not consider. > In the context of > your patch, what this means is that I would prefer to have text like: > > [[ > The kernel source file > .IR Documentation/admin\-guide/cgroup\-v2.rst > (or > .IR Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst in Linux x.y and earlier) > ]] > > Would you be willing to revise your patch to that style? Sure, I will prepare a new version. Regards, Sven
