Re: [PATCH] documentation: core-api: rearrange a few kernel-api chapters and sections

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Apr 27 2018 - 22:04:43 EST


On 04/27/2018 04:17 PM, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 18:11:02 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Rearrange some kernel-api chapters and sections to group them
>> together better.
>>
>> - move Bit Operations from Basic C Library Functions to Basic
>> Kernel Library Functions (now adjacent to Bitmap Operations since
>> they are not typical C library functions)
>>
>> - move Sorting from Math Functions to Basic Kernel Library Functions
>> since sort functions are more Basic than Math Functions
>>
>> - move Text Searching from Math Functions to Basic Kernel Library
>> Functions (keep Sorting and Searching close to each other)
>>
>> - combine CRC and Math functions together into the (newly named)
>> CRC and Math Functions chapter
>
> The changes look good. But ... grr... some of the stuff you are moving
> around was introduced in -rc2 via the networking tree. That kind of thing
> makes life harder than it needs to be. I've sorted it out and applied the
> patch, thanks.

Sorry, I thought that making the patch on linux-next 20180426 (which is based
on -rc2 and a few hundred git trees) would help with that.

Thanks for fixing.
--
~Randy