Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/4] Convert filter.txt to RST

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2018 at 09:50:58PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 10:51:28AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 5:57 AM Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > The objective actually is to have SPDX tags in all files in the kernel.
> > > That includes documentation, even though people, as always, care less
> > > about the docs than they do the code.
> > 
> > right, but let's do that as a separate patch set.
> > In the current set I'd focus on reviewing the actual doc changes.
> > In particular completely removing
> > Documentation/networking/filter.txt
> > feels wrong, since lots of websites point directly there.
> > Can we have at least few words there pointing to new location?
> 
> Something like ...
> 
> 
> ------------ filter.txt
> 
> BPF documentation can now be found in the following places:
> 
> - Introduction to BPF (Linux Socket Filter) - Documentation/userspace-api/socket-filter.rst
> - Classic BPF (cBPF) - Documentation/userspace-api/cBPF.rst
> - Internal BPF (eBPF) - Documentation/userspace-api/eBPF.rst

Internal ?
that was the name we used for may be a month many years ago.
Please use 'extended BPF' in new filter.txt and all other places.

since merge window is open the patches would need to wait until
bpf-next opens up in few weeks.

Thanks