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Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:37:46 -0700
From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu>
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
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Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 01/15] Add PR_{GET,SET}_NO_NEW_PRIVS to prevent execve
from granting privs
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2012 13:01:17 -0700
> Andrew Lutomirski <luto@....edu> wrote:
>
>> This has been bugging me for awhile. Is there any interest in moving
>> the manpages into the kernel source tree? Then there could be a
>> general requirement that new APIs get documented when they're written.
>
> Man page (or other documentation) requirements for patch acceptance are a
> regular kernel summit feature. People seem to think it's a good idea, but
> actual enforcement of such requirements always seems to be lacking. Lots
> of people have kind of given up trying. I don't really see that adding
> the man pages to the tree would help, but I could be wrong...
>
If it's in the source, then I can send it with git format-patch. If
it's out of tree, I have to find the tree, clone the tree, figure out
how to submit, and send separate emails. And then whoever checks that
I documented it has to figure out where I sent it and how to read it
and then try to decide which documentation submission matches which
patch submission.
(Also, if it's in-tree, then I can build the docs from a kernel tree
and have the latest ones. That could be nice.)
--Andy
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