Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:34:05 +0100 | From | Marc Koschewski <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Documentation dir is a mess |
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> [2005-11-20 20:56:59 -0500]:
> On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 16:30 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 01:19:09PM +0100, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > > > hi, > > > > > > _today_ Documentation/* is a mess of files. It would be good > > > to have the _same_ tree as the code has: > > > > Do you have a proposal as to what specific files in that directory > > should go where? Just basing it on the source tree will not get you > > very far... > > Actually I think it's a good start. When I'm looking for documentation, > I usually just do a grep -r on the Documentation directory hoping I get > a correct hit and then manually look through all the results I get. It > does get tedious, and I miss things all the time.
As you're just about to maybe make a decision on reorganisation: how about a separation of user- and developer-relevant documentation? I mean, kernel boot parameters are relevant to a user whereas mm/* stuff is not.
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