Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:30:11 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] docs: add workload-tracing document to admin-guide | From | Shuah Khan <> |
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On 1/28/23 01:35, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Lo! One small quick question. > > On 28.01.23 00:46, Shuah Khan wrote: >> Add a new section to the admin-guide with information of interest to >> application developers and system integrators doing analysis of the >> Linux kernel for safety critical applications. > > That intro made my mind go "neither 'application developers' or 'system > integrators' are admins, so why is this added to the 'admin guide' then?" >
I see what you are saying.
> That made me look up the into for the admin guide, which is > ``` > The Linux kernel user’s and administrator’s guide > > The following is a collection of user-oriented documents that have been > added to the kernel over time. There is, as yet, little overall order or > organization here — this material was not written to be a single, > coherent document! With luck things will improve quickly over time. > ``` > > Adding another section that doesn't seem to a be a good fit feels a bit > like "making things worse than better". So wouldn't this maybe be a > good opportunity to create a totally new top-level section for > application developers and system integrators, even if it's tiny for > now? The audience is likely big enough to justify that -- and the topics > are likely different enough, too (of course sometimes there will be > overlap, as always). Any maybe it will help to bring other stuff over > from admin guide that is more targeted for application developers and > system integrators, which will help to get more structure into the > admin-guide. >
I like the idea of creating a new top-level section for application developers and system integrators. I foresee this section growing and also we can look at other documents that are a good fit under this category and move them over.
Jon, Thoughts on this.
thanks, -- Shuah
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