Re: [PATCH v2 02/24] tools: docs: memory-model: fix references for some files

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Oct 14 2020 - 14:57:24 EST


On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 06:58:40PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 12:38:36PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 09:33:54AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 02:14:29PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > > - The sysfs.txt file was converted to ReST and renamed;
> > > > - The control-dependencies.txt is not at
> > > > Documentation/control-dependencies.txt. As it is at the
> > > > same dir as the README file, which mentions it, just
> > > > remove Documentation/.
> > > >
> > > > With that, ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check script
> > > > is now happy again for files under tools/.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Queued for review and testing, likely target v5.11.
> >
> > Instead of changing the path in the README reference, shouldn't
> > tools/memory-model/control-dependencies.txt be moved to its proper
> > position in .../Documentation?
>
> You are of course quite right. My thought is to let Mauro go ahead,
> given his short deadline. We can then make this "git mv" change once
> v5.10-rc1 comes out, given that it should have Mauro's patches. I have
> added a reminder to my calendar.

Except that I cannot find a commit where control-dependencies.txt is
in tools/memory-model. And this file is not yet in mainline, but
only in -rcu and -next. In both places, it is here:

tools/memory-model/Documentation/control-dependencies.txt

Mauro, to what commit in what tree are you applying this patch?

Thanx, Paul