Jonathan Corbet wrote on 01/15/2019 11:38:59 PM:
> We are not attempting to duplicate the man pages; there's been
occasional
> talk of bringing them into the kernel tree, but enthusiasm for that is
> scarce for a number of good reasons. But there's a lot of information
> about the user-space AP
Hi Jon,
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 02:38:59PM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:37:01 +0200
>
> I'd rather see you put the new stuff under Documentation/driver-api, either
> in a standalone file or in a new subdirectory.
>
> Thanks for your patience with this! We really do wan
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:37:01 +0200
"Joel Nider" wrote:
> Jonathan Corbet wrote on 01/15/2019 08:08:54 PM:
> > The intent behind the user-space API manual is to document the user-space
> > API; it's meant to be read by people writing applications and such.
> > Perhaps they find it with a web sear
/2019 08:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs-rst: userspace: update verbs API
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>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:29:59 +0200
> "Joel Nider" wrote:
>
> > > I think this is a horrible direction to take. The current document
is
> > > clearly for _users_.
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 18:29:59 +0200
"Joel Nider" wrote:
> > I think this is a horrible direction to take. The current document is
> > clearly for _users_. All this documentation you've added is for kernel
> > hackers. It needs to go in a different file, or not be added at all.
> >
> Hmm, tha
; Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] docs-rst: userspace: update verbs API
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>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:26:31PM +0200, Joel Nider wrote:
> > It is important to understand the existing framework when implementing
> > a new verb. The majority of existing API functions are implem
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:26:31PM +0200, Joel Nider wrote:
> It is important to understand the existing framework when implementing
> a new verb. The majority of existing API functions are implemented using
> the write syscall, but this has been superceded by the ioctl syscall
> for new commands.
It is important to understand the existing framework when implementing
a new verb. The majority of existing API functions are implemented using
the write syscall, but this has been superceded by the ioctl syscall
for new commands. This patch updates the documentation regarding how
to go about imple
