On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Wangnan (F) wrote: > > > Can you also do a patch to the man-pages? > > > > http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/perf_event_open.2.html > > Sure. > > I think I need to provide a patch for: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git > > But which one should be the first? Shall we update man pages before > this patch be merged by upstream? Or Michael and Vince will consider > this problem?
It is good to see a rough draft of the manpage changes for an ABI addition like this before the patch gets merged just so we can catch anything odd about the interface. Also include (as a comment) the git commit id that introduces the change. In general manpage patches do not get committed until after the change hits a full released kernel (as things have been known to get reverted from -rc kernels in the past). If you send a rough patch I can fix it up and queue it up with other manpage patches I have (I'm a bit backlogged but working on catching up). I'm never quite sure that I get all of the various Signed-off- lines right for contributed patches though. Vince
