Re: linux-next: manual merge of the sound tree with the jc_docs tree

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:11:59 +0100,
Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:01:13 +0100
> Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Sigh.  I'm glad this work is being done, but if we're going to create
> > > some coordinated documentation it might be good to involve the docs
> > > maintainer when doing it...  
> > 
> > Sorry, will put you guys in Cc at the next time (although all
> > conversions have been done in the sound tree).
> 
> That's kind of my point.  The sound tree is not an appropriate place to be
> making changes to files like Documentation/index.rst.

Well, I meant just that I have *finished* all conversions in sound :)

> > > In this case, I would have liked the chance to comment.  This
> > > documentation belongs in the driver-api document, not the top-level
> > > one. So, in an ideal world, I'd like to see this stuff moved there,
> > > preferably with the patches going though the docs tree.  
> > 
> > If there needs any other changes, feel free to merge my
> > topic/restize-docs branch into yours and keep working there:
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git
> > topic/resize-docs
> > 
> > It's based on vanilla 4.9-rc4, so it must be clean to be merged.  A
> > few misc fixes will come up in for-next branch, but they should be
> > harmless to your changes -- at least the api-related changes won't be
> > touched.
> 
> OK, I'll probably do that; expect me to run a patch by you that moves it
> to the proper place in the hierarchy.

Great, thanks.


Takashi