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 the write syscall, but this has been superceded by the ioctl syscall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.
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