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[Posted November 30, 2022 by corbet]

I *vastly* prefer code comments over this Documentation/ cesspit. Putting things in Documentation/ is a bit like an old-folks-home, neatly out of the way to (bit)rot in peace.
And that whole .rst disease is making it unreadable for anybody that still knows how to use a text editor

— Peter Zijlstra

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Posted Dec 1, 2022 16:57 UTC (Thu) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link] (1 responses)

That's a bit sharp but I have to agree, this is and should remain a code comment. I go to Documentation/ to figure out how to *use* the system; algorithmic minutiae of Intel CADT TLA Technology® Of The Week™ are just useless noise in that context.

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Posted Dec 2, 2022 18:49 UTC (Fri) by ejr (subscriber, #51652) [Link]

Plus, Documentation/ often is far out-of-date for anything about the lower levels. Usage keeps "up" because people bend over backwards and sideways and otherways to keep userspace working.