On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 08:25:46 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I actually do plan to extend this work to support shmem and file-backed > mappings in the future as a revision to this work. Useful, thanks. I pasted this in. > > > > (generally, it would be nice to include the proposed manpage update at > > this time, so people can review it while the code change is fresh in > > their minds) > > It'd be nice to have the man pages live somewhere within the kernel so we > can do this as part of the patch change as things evolve during review, but > obviously moving things about like that is out of scope for this discussion > :) Yes, that would be good. At present the linkage is so poor that things could get lost. I guess one thing we could do is to include the proposed manpage update within the changelogs. That way it's stored somewhere and gets reviewed alongside the patches themselves. > I do explicitly intend to send a manpage update once this series lands > however. That's late, IMO. Sometimes reviewing manpage updates leads people to ask "hey. what about X" or "hey, that's wrong". Michael Kerrisk was good at finding such holes, back in the day.
